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...members of the community engaged in the same intellectual enterprise. Our system as it is separates knowledge into parts and sends each member of the community to a collection of some of the scattered parts. We must bring them back together again, make some unification of preparation which shall bind us together as students. Various devices have been tried in recent years to establish unity among courses. WE have tried orientation courses for Freshman. We have been calling this orientation course an attempt to tell a Freshman what he is going to study before he studies it, as he goes...
...Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church. . . . Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in Heaven."* (MATTHEW XVI: 18, 19.) Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, successor to the authority of Peter, brooded last week at 'the Vatican upon what forces he should loose against Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico, arch foe and suppressor of non-Mexican-born clericals of every creed (TIME, August 2, et ante). His Holiness may have reflected that the Roman Catholic Church...
...library and half his estate won him, the posthumous Loner of godfather to the infant school a nonconformist and an emigrant from the intolerance of the homeland. Battles there were, to be sure, stern doctrinary struggles such as the attempt under the presidency of the Reveread Increase Mather to bind down the college with the dour tenets of Calvinism. But liberalism always triumphed somehow, and lived to flourish in the Harvard of today...
...affect deafness or stony inattention when an outsider utters a word or question relevant to the subject. If the reference or question is pressed, the initiate displays either irritation or chilling dignity and often moves away, leaving spectators either amused or awed that any rites and mysteries can so bind civilized...
...been one of the finest traditions at New Haven, none the less finer because of its dissimilarity from those at Harvard which would little emphasize solidarity in the social sense. To the alien ear it has a rather false ring. For fraternity systems which assumes such ramifications as to bind a college into a social unit usually stifle...