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...from economics, then they ought to try to infuse new blood into the Department--more lecturers and instructors less emotionally committed to the New Deal and the partisan polemics of the Depression. Above all, the Department might draw up an alternative reading list for the course, whereby students may refer to certain different sources if they wish. This experiment might be worth making; it could help to indicate that there is no attempt to create a captive audience for any particular viewpoint, but rather, that any valid persuasion is left truly free in the free marketplace of ideas...
...with considerable interest that I read your Feb. 18 article "Ghost Stories." You refer to the "lens-shy ghost" who smashed the photographer's camera as a "poltergeist." That term is usually used to describe ghosts who throw things about. I had some experience with these "unquiet spirits" when I lived in a certain house in Glen Cove, L.I. several years...
...names refer to places where the various types of the disease were first diagnosed...
Although it would be unrealistic to dwell on the tutorial system as it existed in the College of the mid-30's, nothing is a more nostalgic form of conversation. Invariably, Masters refer to the few years when virtually every student had an individual tutor, often a full professor or junior faculty member. But the system had grave difficulties and perhaps insoluble inner-conflicts, which exploded full-force in the face of President Conant...
...lordship found himself on the defensive. Is it not true, asked M.C. Bergen Evans, that "you in England refer to what we call slums as depressed areas? Do you refer to unemployed people as a redundancy of workers? Do you refer to a moving van as a pantechnicon?" All too true, said his lordship, and added sadly that Britain's ratcatchers-"a most admirable set of men"-have decided it would be more dignified to be called rodent operators...