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...Spring of 1930 and was later rescinded but it now appears that a final decision has been reached. Seen purely from the standpoint of the approximately thirty Freshmen who will thus be barred from the Houses the move may seem unfair. But the action of the University carries far wider implications and is indicative of a change in policy in the school: an effort to make it more and more of graduate character. Although present restrictions seemingly make a realization of the ideal--a professional school, free from all undergraduate instruction--impossible, the University is now attempting to make...
...could afford to buy a victrola and the expensive records that they want. This innovation will provide some students with a pleasure which they cannot enjoy except by going to the Music Building a good quarter of a mile away. To all the House members it will offer a wider, fuller education...
Applied to university teaching, Dr. Count's appeal has a much wider application. A Harvard student should have sufficient discretion to judge the comparative values of the different theories presented him. It is safe for Professor Babbitt to expound the wonders of Humanism as long as Professor Lowes continues to defend the Romantics. The student will progress further towards forming a philosophy of his own in this way, than by listening to any one man, no matter how open-minded. But in a small college this plan presents its dangers. There, it is too expedient for an instructor to share...
...testimony of Divine Wrath against evildoers. They think he is mad; by this time he obviously is. The man who murdered Teresa for divine reasons, and the man who now realizes that he murdered her only because of jealous love, make up a split personality that splits wider every minute...
...issues which were then being settled. He points out what an important epoch it was for the maturing of the religious life of England, and equally so for its bold experiments in popular self-government; these were first tried in the democratic religious sects and then carried out into wider areas of the State. Using this period as an example, the writer shows that democracy will never be a true success without a deep moral and religious background in the lives of the people who compose the democratic government...