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...claim the distinction of being an original source--"Tutor est fons animatus", lest any of your readers should imagine that all Oxford dons are movie fans. I admit that it is highly desirable that they should be but I fear that such a state of things is ideal and as yet outside the range of practical academies. So I must claim undisputed paternity of the essay-title he mentions on the cinema as a form of art, while denying stoutly that I encourage the evils which he implies in the mysterious term "Distribution". On the contrary, movie-going...
...colloquey at Brown resulted from his failure to answer a question submitted by George E. Cassidy of the class of 1926. The question was: 'Isn't it possible that there may be a philosophy gained by evolutionary thinking which presents a worship and reverence for future generations as an ideal and looks toward the development of Heaven upon earth through the use of science: and is not this ideal a fine and worthy one, capable of producing an equally noble standard of morality...
...Oxford tutorial system has been discussed as an ideal for so long that it is difficult to dispel the notion that it is ideal. As Americans have learned more and more of its operations, however, they have found out that a bodily transference of the English institution to Harvard and other American universities is not possible. There are aspects of English University life which would never be tolerated here, for example the rigid rules and regulations governing the daily life of the student. Then, too, the educational system of Oxford and Cambridge is based upon an excellent preparatory school training...
...Ideal, not factual content", "by thought, not by rote" and all the rest. It is suggested, not that we try to act toward Harvard without prejudice, which would be calamitous, but that we try to learn about Oxford without prejudice. We are not after all trying to make over Oxford...
...national law, for the law of nations is by no means a fixed and unchanging body of rules. It finds its sanction for the most part only in public opinion, and therefore its very nature requires a close connection with the sphere of politics. Senator Borah's sheerly legalistic ideal world court is a myth and an impossibility...