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Paper Dolls. Last week a more formidable heckler, Pundit Walter Lippmann, entered the debate. Mr. Lippmann devoted three columns to probing "The Case of Professor R" and concluded that there was reason to be alarmed by the U.S. educational system. Said Lippmann...
...Case. But Professor Renner had a case, and Mr. Lippmann's barbs goaded him into stating it. Renner is a tenth-generation American who was an artilleryman in World War I. Calling Lippmann an amateur with little geography, he explained that his maps were primarily based on human factors-on culture, language and the desire for national security. Said...
...There is no use building ships in 60 days for the Germans to sink in twelve minutes," gloomed Pundit Walter Lippmann. "There's no use building ships without providing the means to protect them...
Charles Townsend Copeland's method of teaching English composition was once described by Walter Lippmann '10 as a "catch-as-catch-can wrestling match." Anyone who interested him was entitled to enjoy "Copey's" friendship and genius. Once or twice every year Copeland still gives a reading to the Freshman class, a highlight in the student's first year at Harvard...
...critics of the U.S. Navy do not know what they are talking about. Wrote one of them (Pundit Walter Lippmann) last week: "Pressure will, I believe, have to be brought. . . ." Said he: "If the inquiry were pressed, it would be found that naval construction is in the hands of men who know a great deal about the ancient art of shipbuilding, but not much, if anything, about the new art of mass production." There had been inevitable mistakes, delays, confusion in the Navy's fleet-building program. But if Mr. Lippmann had pressed his inquiry he would have discovered...