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President Davison, scanning the inventory, asked: "How about the engine? and the aerial cameras?" Colonel Lindbergh demurred. The engine, a Wright Cyclone, was practically new, having flown only 250 hours out of a possible 4,000. The cameras, too, would come in handy. Mr. Davison, able museum man that he is, pointed out that the Colonel had offered all his equipment. A nod of the Lindbergh head threw in engine and cameras...
...more important than a knowledge of the classics. Harvard is attempting to give this medium between the scientific and the liberal, this American culture, to its students, and it appears to be succeeding. However, care must be taken to keep these non-liberal courses such as Military Science or Aerial Photography, as subsidiaries to the liberal arts courses. Once they are given too important a place in the University, they will engulf the other courses and Harvard will no longer be a liberal arts school...
...practical objection that these fields do not properly lie within the scope of a liberal arts curriculum. Obviously these are not the only courses at Harvard which violate the liberal ideal, and they were chosen largely because of their prominence and their popularity; others, such as Aerial Photography, give equal substance to Dr. Flexner's view that the liberal arts college is coming to be an ideal honored more in the breach than in the observance...
...there have been infelicitous crossings of the fence. Cartography, taught as a branch of mathematics and a field of conformal speculation, fits beneath the aegis of the liberal arts; mapmaking in conjunction with aerial photography can only be uncomfortable there. The line has been clearly drawn by Newman and his posterity; there remains the question of whether to cross it or not. No college can draw out its days in eternal compromise; Harvard is liberal in theory, and tends to become illiberal in fact. Its critics, within and without Cambridge, have a right to ask that this difference be resolved...
...credit were not given for them is a question for the United States Government to solve, but whether a liberal arts college should count trade courses for a degree is a question for the College itself to solve. The degree standards last year sagged to such an extent that aerial photography crept in, but this, in the words of Mr. Dooley, is another and a different thing...