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...book, Religion, Politics and the Higher Learning, Morton G. White, professor of Philosophy, emphasizes the differences between inculcating any type of belief and discussing religion in the same critcal spirit with whch philosophy is taught. White claims that teaching religion in any meaningful manner involves teaching a particular religion. Since the non-sectarion college is not prepared to do this, he argues that is must confine its instruction to teaching about religion, which "no more constitutes teaching people to be religious...than teaching about Communism amounts to propagating...
...friend Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas. Losing campaign manager of the primary that Happy won 24 years ago, Clements later beat Chandler forces to become state political boss (1947-55) and U.S. Senator (1950-56). He lost his Senate seat in the 1956 general election to Republican Thruston B. Morton; Enemy Chandler cheerfully takes the credit for switching the critical Democratic votes. In his grim drive to take state party control back from Chandler and control the 1960 delegation, Clements has spent many a day away from the $22,500-a-year job of Democratic senatorial campaign director that Lyndon...
...Something About Students . . .," the first essay, section man Morton Levine complains that Harvard students are more concerned with originality than they are with scholarship. (If this be true, there are many, verily, hordes, who have wasted the best years of their lives in the stacks of Widener--studying.) In place of "an ethical commitment to thoroughness and an esthetic which values craftsmanship in research and writing" there exists "a straining for originality and chic...
...money ($4.98 list price, $1 more for stereo) the frustrated conductor gets some bandshell marshmallows-Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, Fantasia on "Greensleeves"-preconducted for him by Arthur Fiedler, Morton Gould, Robert Russell Bennett. (Any armchair connoisseur of the Viennese repertory will find Conductor Fiedler's tempi in the Fledermaus waltzes aggravatingly slow, but Gould's version of Mexican Hat Dance is so inspiring that it may result in dislocated shoulders...
Other contributions include Miss Dakin's "Pigs," a review of the Harvard lecture system, a criticism of Ezra Pound and Sherry Martinelly by Guy M. Davenport, Jr. '59, and a discussion by Morton H. Levine, teaching fellow in General Education, of experiences with students...