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...course, futile to hope that journalists will exorcise their financial advantage to the distant ideal of economic welfare and political honesty. It is not futile, however, to hope that the education of the reading public to the essential function of a newspaper in an economic world may make it financially more profitable to newspapers-owners to exert themselves to fill properly their important place in the economic organization...
...than usual this year and for this reason it is well to question honestly whether Harvard offers its students an education. The process of education has been defined as the "maturing of certain views of life and the creation of certain demands on life" or, in other words, the function of education is to stimulate and enlarge a man's philosophy. Accepting this definition of education it becomes impossible to maintain that Harvard educates any but a small fraction of its undergraduates. The majority of graduates have benefited in many ways from their four years here but they have...
...hand upon the process of social and economic readjustment and invention with which our generation must necessarily concern itself, then the schools of law must undertake something more far-reaching. As some of the most eminent professors of law themselves have declared, the law schools must take on the function of adjusting the law itself to the changing needs of a confused, complex, ill-balanced social order...
...economic system for?" This question, says Stuart Chase in A New Deal, published last fortnight by Macmillan, was never put by the economic sages of the last century. A very literate economist himself, Mr. Chase answers the question simply and proposes changes which he believes will make the system function as it should. Whether the system is capitalism or socialism, he cares little. "The crux of the matter is, who receives the factory income? As the case now stands, it is a six-cornered fight between the landlord ... the bondholder . . . the stockholder ... the worker ... the management . . . and the state...
...image. The school would be across the valley from "Taliesin," his studio-estate in the dairy country near Spring Green, Wis. He would be the chief faculty member, teaching male and female pupils his basic architectural law: that the architect must integrate his building with its surroundings (function, terrain, climate), make plain its structural elements and if possible develop them as ornamentation. He would teach them the feel of materials by having them blast stone, hew timber, dig soil, work in a machine-shop. They would study, sweat, play and brood in unison. They would be called...