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...notable feature which is missing from this program is any plan for car pooling which had been suggested as a "solution " of the railway problem...
...laws of nature or else as senseless and indefensible, by showing us how they arose and became what they are, what human needs and interests they have served, what forces have favored or misguided their development. History may not furnish the statesman with exact solutions for each concrete problem. But it can give him a deeper insight into the nature of political forces; it can train his powers of observation and reflection about political matters; it can supply him with a mass of evidence of how given measures and policies have worked out in the past--the chief kind...
...modern environment, that the action shall somehow translate the cast to a foreign and somewhat exciting clime, and that until quarter of eleven trouble without end shall visit upon the personnel until a naval leftanent (or its equivalent) shall bust clean through the back drop and settle the whole problem of how many of the audience not related to the cast get home before the next calendar date. With these handicaps"--said Mr. Henry and Mr. Nichols...
...present undergradute problem is not how to get out in three years; it is how to stay in for four...
...enrollment problem, with all the side-issues which it has raised, cannot be dismissed by a mere committee report. The report itself admitted that its proposals were tentative in many respects. It was pointed out yesterday that the larger objective is to build a University which will "attract the more ambitious intellects". But the whole move is made on the assumption that examinations and school records will select the more ambitious intellects and not merely the more capacious. Furthermore, it seems to assumes that purely mental training is the whole function of a college. It neglects the old idea that...