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Raising the question of whether even the new inter-departmental concentration fields might prove too much like strait-jackets for able students, he said, "Instead of laying out plans of study in terms of courses and other requirements, might it not be well to permit an able student, in consultation with his adviser and tutor, to work out a program which would conform to his own ideas as to what he wished to obtain from his field of special study...
...Committee set up its definition of a liberal education as one which "frees human beings from ignorance and prejudice" and gives them "the intellectual tools with which they can confront new problems successfully." To the Committee four years of college should mean more than a number of courses strait-jacketed into a field of concentration. Rather they should have a "definite content...
...going off at once. But aside from its lustier detonations, it is pretty much the same show. Lena still wanders up & down the aisles calling for Oscar, the little flowerpot whose owner won't claim it still grows by stages into a gigantic tree, the guy in the strait jacket still rolls around for hours trying to get out. By now, however, these whimsies have acquired a kind of historical importance, have become authentic bits of Americana like the Katzenjammer Kids and Charlie McCarthy...
KANGUK: A BOY OF BERING STRAIT-As told to William AIbee-Little, Brown...
Between the Nazi's mine warfare and Britain's reprisal blockade on German exports, effective this week, neutral shipping slowed to a standstill. Dutch ships stayed in port, Belgian too. Cross-Channel mail boats missed their runs or were rerouted below the British mine barrage at the Strait of Dover. True it was that this barrage, and a mine field guarding the Thames estuary, and the British blockade patrol, were what originally forced neutrals to enter British waters for guidance and inspection. But now neutrals had even smaller chance of getting through until British sweepers cleared the German...