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With the abolition of two-platoon football, the Ivy League's athletic problems will become more--not less--acute, since the League bans spring practice in football. That question is also expected to be discussed.
The abolition of prescribed courses and the enrichment of the elective program was on of Eliot's primary aims. Bit by bit required courses become electives. In 1874-5 all required studies were in the Freshman year except for Rhetoric, History, Philosophy and Political Economy. In 1883-4 the elective...
After the defeat of the Journal in the thirties, the CRIMSON'S next major opponent was the commercial tutoring schools. When in 1939 its conscience was hurt more from complacency than its budget would be hurt by courage, the paper rejected advertising from what it called "intellectual brothels" and began...
Died. Dr. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, 70, anti-Fascist Italian-born author (Goliath, the March of Fascism; Common Cause) and longtime (1936-48) professor of Italian literature at the University of Chicago; of a cerebral thrombosis; in Fiesole, Italy. A tireless booster of the League of Nations, he became disillusioned after...
"Democracy will have receded in the current Western usage of the term, as meaning self-government. It may, though, have advanced in the current Russian usage, as meaning social equality in contrast to hierarchy of classes. The loss of freedom on the material plane will have been the price of...