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...past prevented U.S. Roman Catholics from taking an independent line of conduct on the most serious problems of national life, such as racial and labor questions. But on Communism Escoulin finds U.S. Catholics sinning in the other direction. So passionately committed are they, he says, that they "absorb the most exaggerated and false propaganda" and are often prevented from "protesting against invalid methods of fighting Communism...
...prominent companies that regularly absorb a part of the country's graduating crop were contacted in compiling the report...
...they, the tutors, do not want to barge in where they are not wanted. They point out that while concentration dinners, deconcentration dinners, and informal forums have been increasingly successful, they have not revealed any tremendous demand on the part of the students to meet faculty members or to absorb education with their baked beans...
...learned how to read intelligently, "they tended to look to their professors to tell them not merely what books to read but sometimes what chapters and what pages; on being told, the more serious among them would throw themselves upon the recommended pabulum and would try to absorb it in a very frenzied fashion. They read rapidly, desperately and far too much. And because they tended to believe that all facts (and only facts) were important, and, what is more, equally important, the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will probably suffer...
...mind of academic persons . . . whom war service or some other sharp new experience has made painfully aware of the social and economic miseries of their society. Like the youthful Kropotkin ... a student or professor in this condition wonders whether it can be right for him to continue to absorb himself in the study of, let us say, the early Greek epic at Harvard, while the poor of south Boston go hungry and unshod...