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...McConn was for ten years the registrar of a western state University. As a result of that experience, he has become convinced that the American system of grades, credits, and decrees is a "Meaningless absurdity. His remedy for this unfortunate condition as embodied in an article in the "New Republic" is interesting if not entirely practical. Abolish all grades, all credits, all degrees. In their place substitute "real records" written reports of the student's accomplishment in each course. Then when the student is ready to leave, let him depart with a collection of these report in his pocket...
...Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" were rendered with accurate energy. "De Profundis", on the other hand was made to seem hollow and perfunctory by the hurried staccato delivery of the words. There was more theatricality than feeling in the interpretation. Rachmaninoff's "Cherubim Song", too, became a meaningless jumble of vocal effects, in which one could not see the forest for the trees...
...many students in the University, a foreign language club has no significance whatever; either their ignorance or else their experienced in secondary schools leads them to believe that such organizations are merely intended to furnish flaccid bits of information and meaningless amusement to those whose sole interest lies is things alien. In many cases, such suppositions are justified. But within the Cercle Francais of Harvard, conditions are quite different; the Cercle is active--and, what is more, it turns its activity to useful purposes...
...this after forty-eight expensive, meaningless primaries--the most expensive certainly, and perhaps the most meaningless that has ever been held in this country. If the convention results as it now seems likely to, in the nomination of a comparatively unheralded candidate, to what purpose will money have been poured out like water to insure the "popularity" of this or that aspirant...
...whole treaty--the future stability of the world--is threatened by the brazen refusal of Senator Lodge to move a hair's breadth. A few meaningless differences in words is all that stands between agreement on the article ten reservation and peace. The Democrats have come nine-tenths of the way, but still the Republicans stand adamant, flaunting their power in the face of a universal demand for ratification. Under the contemptible guise of "Americanism," selfish political considerations are blocking the road to world peace...