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...possibility of aggression by Germany. And a war of punishment on the part of France would simply mean another invasion of Germany, like that of 1923, through which France lost several million francs and immeasurable goodwill, and gained nothing of lasting importance. France will fight now only to maintain the status quo if that is threatened by an aggressively arming Germany. And Germany is not arming. England is, of course, as anxious to avoid a world conflict as is the United States...
Succinctly, then, the charge is this: That American undergraduates, even Harvard undergraduates, are taught not to think, but to accumulate card catalogues. It would be stupid to maintain that no advance had been made, and to overlook the growth of tutorial and general examination systems. But it would be even more stupid to insist that all is well. It is reasonably obvious that the cornerstone of, for example, a Harvard man's A.B. resembles very closely a collection of fifteen course grades; and it is certainly obvious to observers that those grades are acquired not through the medium of substantial...
Publishers of Esquire and Apparel Arts are William Hobart Weintraub and David A. Smart, who have been men's fashion arbiters for a dozen years, maintain correspondents all over Europe and the U. S. Editor of both magazines is young Arnold Gingrich, eight years out of the University of Michigan, who like his employers, keeps erratic hours but considers himself more the artist, less the businessman than they. In informal notes surrounding the brilliant table of contents in the first issue of Esquire, Editor Gingrich explained some of its purposes beyond offering an attractive medium to advertisers...
...budget,, currently some $130,000,000, is the city's biggest. School sites, buildings and equipment are valued at some $500,000,000. A New York child may go to school without spending any money at all: teachers and other educational employes, with some help from the city, maintain a lunch fund which amounts to some $1,500,000 annually. When Jewish holidays fall on school days, the schools lose $500,000 annually, New York State aid being apportioned on the basis of daily instruction and attendance. New York City provides classes for the blind, deaf, crippled, tuberculous, cardiac...
...History 1 it is not willing to separate the honors students from "the dumb bunnies," the scholars from the social lions and athletes. Thus it will not become an institution for training intellectuals. It insists on catering to the masses; it hopes to convert them; and it will maintain the present mark system as long as it is the only one which permits the traditional homogeneity of the student body to be treated as an actuality...