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Meanwhile, the Committee urges that more of the Senior members of the teaching staff to asked to serve as tutors, and that young tutors be encouraged to feel that their function in the University is an important...
...books and articles on the evolution of the brain, encephalitis, a score of other subjects, reorganized single-handed the famed Neurological Institute of New York. When he died two years ago, at the age of 62, Dr. Frederick Tilney was known as the greatest U. S. specialist on brain function...
...main argument in the Bertrand Russell controversy revolves around the "free speech issue." It should be remembered that Harvard as an educational institution has as its duty not the maintenance of an open forum for everybody with eccentric ideas. This is a propagandistic function and those who wish to indoctrinate special issues should hire a hall. Harvard has a higher purpose: to lead its students, by a consideration of unbiased thoughts presented by men of moral integrity, to make up their minds on controversial issues. This is the educational function...
...religion make a truly practical contribution toward the preservation of democracy against the threat of totalitarianism? What is the real nature of the forces of disintegration that are at work today? How do they function? Is it possible to render them powerless by opposing them with forces of integration? If so, how? The nature of the threatening conditions must be investigated and the endeavor must be made to find means by which they can be rendered harmless...
...English Restoration, especially, was accompanied by an important efflorescence of secular music. One can easily appreciate the role of the Puritan Revolution in creating the new spirit. The seventeenth century Puritan, with his austere morality and his mystic absorption in God, could neither enjoy music nor understand its function. To him music was a sensual pleasure, and as such was a barrier to the contemplation of eternal truths. It had no place in the Church service. In this situation one can sense the death-rattle of religious music; already dying, it must have perished unwept when the source that nourished...