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...silent on all the Wickersham recommendations. Senator Norris insisted that they required "a great deal of study." Senator La Follette was already in open opposition. He called the Report a ''wedge being driven into the Constitution." Only such unswerving Drys as Ohio's Senator Fess gave blanket approval...
...complication to unionizing the South: last week the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People renewed its drive to get the A. F. of L. to adopt a blanket policy permitting Negroes to join unions. The A. F. of L. at present has no Negro policy...
...professional men carry on their activities in seclusion comparable with that of the class room. There is frequently a tendency for the teacher, deprived of the stimulus that comes from suggestion and helpful criticism, not to show the expected professional growth. . . . A blanket statement such as is usually made-'He is a good teacher' or 'He is a poor teacher'-is worthless as a chart for improvement. . . . As contrasted with the casual appraisals now made, a respectable survey of a man's effectiveness as a teacher should be: 1) systematic; 2) impartial; 3) made from...
...letter of Mr. Kreger, reprinted else-where in this issue, has received from the Harvard Alumni Bulletin a reply that appears, in its blanket denial, unreasonably sharp. Certainly, as both the Bulletin and the writer agree, his objections cannot be relegated to the sour-grapes wall of a disappointed athlete. It is equally true that his connection with Harvard rowing for eight years should have given him sufficient understanding of the situation to guarantee the accuracy of his charges. His pre-refusal of the Bulletin's request to furnish names is based on excusable opposition to reviving old prouder...
...cultivation. The tradition which established theatrical activity has fortunately not had time to become extinct as is definitely indicated by the recurring undergraduate efforts to cause some sort of dramatic revival. But the impetus necessary to materialize these feelings must come before the fire is smothered in the obliterating blanket of opposition and neglect...