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...angle of the conventional criticism of the present-day college is that it is too much detached from the ordinary, prosaic life beyond the pale of campus or club. Is this criticism just? Perhaps the logical reply is that the college in order to serve its proper function must be 'quite detached from the narrowness and pettiness of everyday existence; that it should not wallow in the muck of sordid partyism, but that it should cling to a rational idealism, attempting to apply its formulas worked out in the experiment station to the unscientific and illogical conditions of an unreasoning...
...critics in Boston and New York. These have been asking, in their reviews of "A Punch for Judy", a comedy of an American business man and his family, why the Workshop does not stick to a more artistic, more unusual type of play, that is in keeping with the present-day, conventional conception of high dramatic ideals. One perhaps not understanding the purpose of the Workshop, suggests a presentation of the efforts of the best contemporary writers: another, the revival of the little seen plays of Elizabethan authors; others have still different proposals...
...earning the funds for that work. More recently the modern tendency to hurry has lead to a profound change. Men are entering the professional schools immediately after graduation, preferring to borrow the needed money and push themselves right through, rather than to wait and earn it by teaching. The present-day youth has no time to spend on stop-gaps...
...anthology of songs of joy, faith and promise from the present-day poets...
...then, do some of our present-day "liberals" come from measuring up to that ideal: Too often the self-styled "liberal" is as bigoted and impassioned, in his own way, as the "conservative" whom he so despises. Liberalism is not the opposite of Conservatism. It is rather, a separate and highly-to-be-desired state by itself. Yet today all but the most hidebound reactionaries call themselves "liberal" and exhibit their own particular little idiosyncrasies as proof of the fact. Consequently when the delegates gather here next week to form an intercollegiate Liberal Society, they will be laboring under...