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Yale men have given up the sordid practice of living in sorority houses, according to a recent interview appearing in the columns of the unimpeachable Lamar (Missouri) Democrat with a local girl who has made good--Miss Zula Williams, "one of the dietitians at the great university of Yale...
Olum called attention to recent actions by other universities limiting academic freedom, chiefly at Chicago, where students are not allowed to criticize the administration directly, and at Ohio State, where a Marxist club was banned. Mentioning the refusal by the University to allow Earl Browder to use a lecture hall for a speech, he remarked that academic freedom was especially threatened during wartime...
...hand if one should remove either from the combination, it's doubtful if the other would survive. I would say it's a problem which like the human equation, must be put in the catagory of abstractions. Basically, music is what bands offer and the peculiar twist which in recent years is evidenced, naturally, is a result of encouragement from the public through the medium of the box office...
Those who work for world union will have a fight on their hands, a fight against powerful forces. Just what these forces are has become apparent through recent developments in England. In that country, Liberals, Laborites, and left-wing Conservatives have in the past month brought a demand for world federalism into the august halls of Parliament. In pushing the government to make constructive plans for peace, they have made it clear that they feel the first step must be a renunciation of much of England's national sovereignty and empire. On December 5, last Tuesday, Lord Halifax rose...
That education has widely degenerated into "the mere acquisition of information" is the charge leveled at American colleges by Dean Landis in his most recent annual report. The charge is not new. It was on the theory that students must be "inoculated with the virus of self-perpetuating education"--which, translated, means inspired to go on, informally, and learn on their own initiative--that President Conant conceived of the American Civilization Plan. On another front, the University of Chicago is attacking the problem by exposing susceptible freshmen to the grand sweep of Knowledge--through mammoth survey courses such as Civilization...