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With people having less money to spend on a liberal arts degree that means less in terms of cold cash, many of the educators who now scoff at Hutchins are going to see his general revisions going into effect in spite of their blusterings. Colleges will have to give a quicker, less expensive training to the great majority of men who do not want to go to graduate school, but merely want a sound general education before trying their hand at business. And they will have to stiffen the requirements for a full degree, collaborating on programs with the graduate...
...attitude toward Tschaikowski is simply this: because of his over-sentimentality, his superficiality, and especially his lack of musical ingenuity, he cannot compare as a composer with numerous other masters. Certainly, we realize that much of his music is great; we own and play many Tschaikowski records. But we scoff at Mr. Baggaley's claims that each of the last three symphonies and the two concertos is a "completely satisfying vessel of musical expression." Willard J. Hertz...
Nine people out of ten would probably scoff at the thought of being asked to work all summer long and yet pay for their expenses. Nevertheless, that is what a number of students did during their vacation, and they would be willing to defend their sanity at the drop...
Whenever Robert Alphonso Taft, 50, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has run for office, the electorate has done two things: 1) scoff at him, 2) vote for him. Mr. Taft is no charmer, but he gets elected...
...Dimas, Calif., a little Leftist, was placed on the Dies committee last February to counterbalance its Red-hunting chairman. Jerry Voorhis soon was more appalled by his new view of U. S. Communists and Nazis than by the antics of Martin Dies. Having come to check and scoff, the new member remained to respect the work if not the chairman of the committee. But last week Mr. Voorhis suddenly drew back, cried: "I can't vote for that...