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...third year and to a small group of graduate students. As rapidly as possible the present curriculum should be permeated with a critical study of wide relationships. Nevertheless, the curriculum of the School must continue both objective and realistic and be kept free from sheer sentimentalism. From a pedagogical standpoint this can only be accomplished by thorough specialized study early in the curriculum of business as it exists both statically and dynamically. The larger objectives can be effectively approached only on the background of such training. Any other approach would turn into efforts to blueprint the future and project Utopias...
...well be that the trained economist did not fulfill what is, from a corollary standpoint, a very real duty; that he did not perceive the fatal anomalies of the actual business structure of the world and prescribe for them. But this constitutes no adequate basis for such an attack as this on the integrity and usefulness of the economic scholar. And one feels an ironic inconsistency in Mr. Prince's simultaneous dicta that college chairs attract only these whom the world refuses, and that the incumbents of those chairs did not save the world from disaster. The harassed capitalist...
...Jugoslav royal visit was Divorcé Carol's sister, ex-Queen Elisabeth of Greece. Italian newsorgans were furious. Rumania lately turned down a proposal by Benito Mussolini that she sign a treaty pledging assistance to Italy in case of a war with Jugoslavia. From Italy's standpoint the Rumanian Government, by consenting to a Jugoslavian state visit, was offering a rebuff to Italy, putting Il Duce's political nose out of joint...
Another reform that might be helpful is closer supervision by the Chairman of Boards of Tutors of the reading assigned by the tutors under their jurisdiction. Some reading is highly valuable so far as concerns preparation for General Examinations; other reading is practically valueless from this standpoint...
...Mencken's arguments are a bit high-strange; they savor of viciousness. But it is evident that he has struck a blow in the right place, though he may have struck too hard. From a purely intellectual point of view, the schools need revision. And from the standpoint of financial expediency, they are more than wasteful. For this hard-spent money, the citizens are given, as Mr. Mencken says, the sight of a myrind palatial buildings, "out of each vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy... an endless procession of adolescents who have been taught everything save that which...