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Late yesterday Representative Blanchard stated that he had received a statement from John Jay Chapman '84, which will be read as evidence. Mr. Chapman, whose recent article was partly responsible for the action which has been taken by prominent University graduates, gives in the course of the statement, concrete evidence which is most favorable to the proposal...
...Plea for the Emancipation of Our Culture from Well-Meaning Commercialism" is Mr. John Jay Chapman's latest contribution to the body of literature aimed at the conduct of American Universities. Although his charges are by no means novel, they have gained wide publicity through the action of Messrs. Bates and Blanchard in filing a petition with the Massachusetts Legislature for an investigation of the state of affairs at Harvard...
...impose the duty of rendering advisory opinions upon the Court. Neither does it specifically forbid such opinions. When Washington was President, he inquired of the Court whether a treaty made with Louis XVI of France was binding after the Revolutionary Government had taken over that country. Chief Justice John Jay declined to have the Court furnish an opinion because it was not a litigated case. Later, Virginia and Kentucky passed resolutions of nullification; and Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton appealed to the Supreme Court for a decision. Again it refused to speak. A third appeal was made by President...
...John Jay Chapman, graduate of Harvard, resident of Manhattan, author and publicist, is a man of intensity, energy. What he believes, he believes passionately. His right arm is off at the elbow. Few have the exact reasons for this, but it is commonly believed that, for having struck a friend (or teacher), Mr. Chapman did penance by thrusting his right arm into a blazing furnace...
...John Jay Chapman, writing in the December "Atlantic" on "Our Private Schools," finds that college entrance examinations have done more than anything else to destroy education in the secondary schools. Hardly less important as a contributory cause, he thinks, is the shift in emphasis from teacher to text-book...