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...Department of State over the admission of Count Michael Karolyi, and assertions that the Department was "abundantly justified" in preventing him from speaking after he got here have distressed American lovers of free speech. These good people do not realize that the Secretary of State is merely exercising a function consecrated to his use by a benevolent Congress. During the war the Secretary was given the power of controlling aliens absolutely whenever "the public safety" should require it. This power has now been made a permanent attribute of the Department of State...
...principally the value of this sort of organization lies in forcing young men to think about the problems they will soon, be called on to face. In the Oxford Union the great issues of the nineteenth century were first tussled over. The Debating Union can fulfill a real function; as a center of learning and thought. The University cannot dispense with a forum of opinion and discussion...
...Kallen states as his belief: "If education has established habits of such a sort that no claim to authority can be acknowledge before it has made itself good, and none can be rejected until it (i.e. the claim) has failed to make good, the function of education in a democratic community has been served; freedom has been safeguarded." Immediately afterwards he questions whether this rather cumbersomely expressed ideal will ever be realized. He fears that the complex organization imposed on the American educational system kills the spirit of independent inquiry. This picture is indeed repulsive; unfortunately...
...archaeologist, when he is fulfilling his highest function, is engaged in historical research and for that purpose needs a wide knowledge not only of the sciences that man has acquired, but of human psychology so that he may understand man as well as things...
...root of the whole difficulty lies a false assumption as to the function of a college paper. Looking for an analogy in the outside world, some students have drawn a parallel between the college paper and independent newspapers of journals of opinion. This is nonsense. If the editorial policy of the college paper were dictated by the personal whims of each succeeding editor, where would the college be? With the glee clubs and winning football teams drawing students to the college, this one editor by his personal opinions might be undoing all their good work. Suppose for instance, that...