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...chief reason why there is in the U.S. the present widespread . . . outbreak of crime and disorder on the part of American youth (TIME, Dec. 14) is that the fundamental place of discipline in education seems to have been quite forgotten. . . . The rabbit is at liberty to run about the garden where his life is passed, and feed upon such plants, weeds and flowers as may attract him. . . . To call any such process education is in the highest degree absurd...
...young man, Joseph Retinger knew his great compatriot Theodor Joseph Konrad Korzeniowski intimately, especially from 1909 to the outbreak of World War I. Now a member of the Polish Government in London, Retinger writes of those days in the sharp, graceful dialect of an old-fashioned boulevardier of letters. His book is illustrated by the brilliant Polish draftsman Feliks Topolski (TIME, Jan. 4). All of which makes for no mean addition to Conradiana...
Joseph C. Grew '02, President of the Harvard Alumni Association and former Ambassador to Japan, will receive the Howland Memorial Prize April 14 and will also deliver a public lecture in accepting the award, Yale University announced yesterday. Envoy to Japan from 1932 up to the outbreak of war, Grew has only been in the country since the early part of last fall...
...peacetime, its methods, notorious for sensational charges based on unsound evidence, would not be wholesome for a democracy. In wartime, they are definitely dangerous. The latest outbreak, timed to draw attention to the Committee at a strategic moment, reveals Dies' procedure at its best. Last week in Congress he delivered a scathing attack against 39 Government employees, branding them as "crackpots" and "communists." Under his pressure, Congress even took steps to force dismissal of a Negro employee in the Treasury Department...
...while he was still married to his first wife, and threatened to print more. Mme. Caillaux went to his office and shot him dead. A French jury decided there had been no premeditation, acquitted her, and precipitated a political crisis. The case for days distracted French attention from the outbreak of World War I. Even 20 years later, when she tried to give a lecture at the Louvre, a mob attacked her crying "Assassine...