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Shadow of approaching wrong, image...
...College ever uttered. The cultural background and intellectual interests which are essential to the dramatist, he finds lacking in the ordinary college graduate. Inasmuch as the latter is expected to have acquired both of these as a result of his college course, it would seem as if something were wrong either with the colleges themselves or the attitude of those who frequent them...
...would you wish changed before you send your son here? Would you have learned more if you had had more personal college tutoring? if less emphasis had been laid on marks? Do you approve of the general divisional examination and distribution requirements? Are Harvard athletics too specialized? What is wrong with the social system? Such questions as these deserve consideration in the space allotted...
What, then, is wrong with the reader? Besides a very human desire for sensationalism, he is unable--according to Mr. Allen--to appreciate the proper value of the important news items, "to distinguish the A. P. dispatch from the special correspondents' forecast of conditions, and the fact story from the rumor story, or to take into account the probable bias of the paper...
Patently something is wrong when a law misfunctions so flagrantly. The newness of the regulations and the changing boundaries of Central Europe, add immensely, of course, to the confusion. But there can be no excuse for so large a number of tragedies. Part of the fault lies in the lack of co-operation between the immigration authorities and the American consuls who sign passports long after the quotas for their countries have been reached. Apparently no effort is made to investigate conditions beforehand, and so prevent the immigrant from starting on a useless, or worse than useless, pilgrimage. Consuls have...