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...season of Protestant get-togethers was in full swing last week. Everywhere there was talk about church mergers. Protestants showed an increasing awareness of how much they have in common; they also displayed a stubborn, but understandable, concern over what they held precious in their own creeds...
This stumbling block of precious independence is in fact a false and unnecessary obstacle. Change in the method of learning does not imply that students must be told what to learn. Effective or ineffective educational methods can be used with Eliot or with Hutchins. In fact, more interference from a central college authority is not equal to better education...
...recent April showers have proved a double boon to the Crimson in its fight for a rebound season. They have a hard, fast-drying surface which snubs rain, and storms have only kept the team indoors for the day of the weather onslaught itself. In the past, precious practices had to be cancelled for days after a shower. Also, they have given Barnaby a chance to work up a ten-man squad for the Yale match on good courts. Charlie Ames, Loring Briggs, Hilliard Hughes, Howie Swartzman, and Jack Frey are at present pounding the extra surfaces with...
...years after acquiring the Raeburn, Huntington spent $6,000,000. By his death in 1927, he had assembled the finest collection of 18th Century British portraits in the U.S. (among them: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy). And his purchases of 100,000 rare books and 1,000,000 precious manuscripts made him, in Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach's judgment, "without doubt the greatest collector of books the world has ever known." In the judgment of Englishmen who hated to see their treasures taken off, he was one of history's colossal despoilers...
That was June 1939, and one of the real differences between then and now is that in 1939, while the people of Europe made the most of the precious days of peace, the U.S. and the world were primarily interested in what Europe's statesmen were thinking, planning and doing. Today the U.S. and the world are more interested in what the people of Western Europe are thinking. What the Italian voters do in their April 18 elections, for instance, is far more important than almost anything a Western European statesman might do at this time...