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...printed word that brings in the past to serve the present, it is the generation of retired scholars who can best help in perpetuating that present. The provision for eight consultants with their time at the disposal of the student will allow the workers for a Ph.D. degree to consider the past in the light of present-day experience. The idea of Washington as a place of higher reference scholastically as well as politically, as a new educational focus point, suggests that education may join the ranks of other interests becoming centralized in the national capitol...
...putting the two branches of the sport on an equal footing will be an equalizing one. The good results of open tournaments may not all be apparent from the very start; but they will inevitably come out to the everlasting benefit of one of the greatest of all present-day sports...
...news columns of this morning's CRIMSON contain the announcement of a widespread movement by leading educators to modernize religious teachings to conform to present-day science by adding to the Bible the humanistic utterances of such men as Lincoln and Carlyle and such documents as the Declaration of Independence. Quite a different point of view is shown in the statement reprinted elsewhere on this page reporting the progress of the Bryan Memorial University, a college in which every member of the faculty must swear to an implicit belief in the divine authorship of the Scriptures...
According to the plans outlined, the new movement, in which many prominent men, such as Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard, are interested, is basically a remodelling of the teachings of Christ so that they will fit in with present-day beliefs. Such "medieval superstitions" as Heaven and Hell are entirely at variance with the modern trend of a philosophy built on science. While the leaders of the movement express no intention to undervaluate the Bible, a literal interpretation of the doctrines it expresses are to them impossible. Rather, they prefer to regard the Old and New Testaments as an allegory...
...sake, intelligent progress in more effective illustration and typography represents definite progress in achieving better advertising. Accuracy and sincerity, two qualities sometimes lacking in the paraphernalia of propaganda have come, as one partial result of the Bok prizes, to be recognized as factors of the greatest value in present-day exposition of commodities. The practical application of the theory of honest and effective advertising could be taken as an adequate symbol of the usefulness of the Harvard Business School in American industry...