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...next approached a dignified old Prophezzor whose erudition. I was told, is simply oppressive. "Knowledge is the basis of education" he explained. "Memory is the key to knowledge. My course on the poet Omar is the sine quo non of an education because it develops brain capacity. It is my practice to confront the Satellites with a brief quotation from some obscure poem. I then require them to cite chapter, verse, page and line, and to quote what precedes and follows, omitting every other word. None but the finest memory can do that." It was pitiful to see the four...
...string, was a German offer to guarantee the Rhine frontier against aggression in a treaty between Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany (TIME, Mar. 16). The offer tacitly agreed to abandon any claim to Alsace and Lorraine, and was in the nature of a frank recognition of the status quo. The Eastern frontier (i.e., the German-Polish-Czecho-Slovakian boundary) was specifically left for final settlement through arbitration...
...school system is an labor-factory", says Dr. Kallen in the current "New Republic". After much erudite writing on the origins of schools, he concludes that the present school system, colleges included, exists solely ot perpetuate the status quo in economics and religion, and to make docile workers out of the children of workers...
...proposed Protocol to the Covenant of the League of Nations-a document devised last summer to maintain the status quo in Europe, to enable European Powers to disarm and to set up a system of obligatory arbitration of international disputes under threat of combined punitive measures (TIME, Sept. 8 et seq.)-was last week unanimously declared dead (because the British Commonwealth of Nations does not intend to sign it) and the whole question of security loomed large in the politics of Europe...
...Quo Vadis. Italy herewith put in a bid for cinema consideration. To assist their bid, they hired Emil Jannings, the most distinguished picture actor on the Continent, and used Rome for background. Jannings played Nero. Characteristically, his performance was intelligent and distinctive. He gave the Emperor a judicious mixture of viciousness and humor. Otherwise, the film was inconspicuous. There were a great many actors and a good deal of scenery, but the swift smoothness of Hollywood was lacking...