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...future. In order to live wisely in the present moment it is necessary to have a sense of the continuity of time and an awareness of the fact that those who made history, wrote books and created ideas were fully alive in their present. That is the teacher's function; to awaken and communicate the life of the past. If the past is distrusted, it is because the teachers have not enkindled it, and the students have not burst into flame. Discussing the university don in one of his aromatic essays, George Santayana says: "Yet dry learning and much chewing...
...time when nearly all the colleges in the country have had to slash their athletic programs to shreds, the Harvard Athletic Association has come out with a statement to the effect that it will continue to function on a full program for the remainder of the year, while making a large general cut in all expenses. It is clear that the Athletic Association has been exceedingly fortunate when the fact is considered that it could hardly have continued to function if last year's surplus and the $50,000 of the anonymous donor had not been conveniently available. The experience...
...business. Because the War Department ordered the transfer of troops from Fort Russell, Tex. to Kentucky, Tom Connally, Texas' long-haired, small-footed Senator, raced to Secretary Hurley to protest "this arbitrary, autocratic and unwarranted action." He was, he said, "coldly and bluntly told that it was no function of the Federal Government to protect the U. S. border from raids, revolutions, thieves and cut-throats." Back in the Senate last week Senator Connally charged that the War Department was concentrating its forces near the larger cities. "The Secretary of War," exclaimed the Senator, "with a glitter of fear...
...radio, I shall consider this function one of the perquisites of my office...
...will doubtless center around the terms of the arrangement, which comprise merely a two-year contract on a home-and-home basis, and emphasis will be placed on the diplomatic manouevres since 1926 with their relation to the present move. In that connection, it must be remembered that the function of athletic authorities is not to score diplomatic "points" nor to outwit rival authorities by subtle negotiation, but rather to arrange contests which as nearly as possible reflect the undergraduate sentiment in the institutions involved. Apparently Harvard and Princeton officials have decided in this instance to abandon the first theory...