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...Chairman of the division, has appointed Alfred C. Redfield, Professor of Physiology, as chairman of a committee to consider the general details of the reorganization. Commenting on the change, Professor Ames expressed his hope that the change will cause the teaching and study at Harvard "to become broader in scope and break down the artificial barriers which have often hampered those engaged in biological research." The change has been regarded as necessary by others in the department...
...will rediscount it with local banks. At the White House it was labeled an experiment, but Government officials declared that "the next step will be to try to persuade private capital to accommodate purchasers so that the thing can be made nation-wide in scope...
Yesterday the CRIMSON suggested that course credit no longer be given for military and naval science. This suggestion was based, not primarily on any philosophical objection to war or to its propaganda, but on the practical objection that these fields do not properly lie within the scope of a liberal arts curriculum. Obviously these are not the only courses at Harvard which violate the liberal ideal, and they were chosen largely because of their prominence and their popularity; others, such as Aerial Photography, give equal substance to Dr. Flexner's view that the liberal arts college is coming...
...arts are receiving recognition. Music, drama, fine arts and crafts have proved to offer scope for all the individual's ability, and to have something of value for even the least talented pupils. More and more, schools are offering opportunities in them partly because of our added leisure, and partly for their influence and value in developing the individual. Unwise school authorities under financial pressure may exile them temporarily, but the movement toward them is, I believe, too strong to be stopped...
That best-selling behemoth, Anthony Adverse (TIME. June 26), set the pace for what may well be a rout of historical novels in the U. S.. but that pace is a little too hot for Jonathan Bishop. In a story of such length and scope as Anthony Adverse the long rubbery arm of coincidence seemed only a little more elastic than natural; in Author Gorman's book it steals the show...