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...Capitol's Statuary Hall, one of Florida's two immortal sons is Dr. John Gorrie . . ." [TIME, Dec. 3]?wrong again. He is her only son there. Surprised recently at the sight of a gentleman roped to a plank being dragged head first down the Capitol steps, I found him to be the bronze edition of Florida's other son, General E. Kirby Smith, C. S. A., who now stands with several other sons in the Hall of Columns one floor below. Under a Congressional resolution, mainly because the great weight of almost 100 statues was considered unsafe, the Hall...
...experience that the public presentation on the screen of scenes of shame and crime insidiously dulls the sensitive edge of right conscience. Absolutely false standards of moral conduct, at first disapproved, soon tolerated, and finally accepted, result from the erroneous notion that the fundamental moral laws of right and wrong could possibly change to meet the laxity of our times...
...Flynn is the author of "God's Gold: John D. Rockefeller and His Times," "Security Speculation: Its Economic Effects," "Graft in Business," and "Investment Trusts Gone Wrong...
...following statements in the editorial in yesterday's paper. It states: "The majority of graduates, unfortunately, retain their Harvard connection only through the football team, with the result that large endowment funds and winning elevens tend to go hand and hand. Even if the College believes their views wrong, it is often impolitic to disregard them." There is absolutely no support whatever for the statement that at Harvard large endowments depend on winning football teams. The Harvard endowment steadily increased absolutely as well as relatively until the depression. Yet our football teams remained more or less constant in the quality...
Your inference that Harvard College should pander to the demands of fanatical football fans even though it knows this to be "wrong" is foreign to the traditions of any free educational institution and to Harvard in particular. If an educational institution stands for anything it should stand for intellectual and moral honesty. Your suggestion that it should depart from this ideal (I do not deny than in the past it has not been constantly adhered to unfortunately) is a disgrace to your own integrity...