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...Manhattan, Frieda Mierse Wynn, 27, filed suit for separation from Funnyman Ed ("The Perfect Fool") Wynn, 52, charged him with being a "constant nag." Extracts from his 140-page answer: "First I bought her a dictionary. ... I trained her along the lines of the social graces.. . . The bliss I hoped for lasted only five days...
...guests. Many of the doctors invited found the advances of Publisher Gannett crude, stayed home. And the majority of Manhattan physicians, congenitally afraid of politics, and little under standing the practical meaning of planned medicine or the motives of those for and against it, went about their business, bliss fully ignorant of the whole affair...
...education is the recognition of one's self and one's environment--to that end--is not education through the self of primary importance? The university should recognize that no teacher can teach anything; from him, students can only learn. A Bliss Prize Exam, "a notable reading list in history, a series of brilliant lectures, a group of earnest scholars"--all these are useless without the student's personal drive...
...fixed routine. Exams cannot truly measure the tangible results of a man's knowledge or of his self development; his increasing curiosity, self reliance, and self expression are better indices of his progress. These are developed by informal discussion. Hence the figure of eleven students taking the Bliss exam is no vital index of their inspiration. We would learn something from a course in or a regimentation of the study of American Civilization; but can we afford to sacrifice our voluntary self education? Samuel S. Binnian...
...clear after a year's trial that worldly fortune has not been an ardent suitor of President Conant's American Civilization Plan. As tangible evidence of the Plan's success, there were only eleven hardy undergraduates, who filed in to take the Bliss Prize examination last November. True, it has made some striking contributions: a notable reading list in history, a series of brilliant lectures, a group of earnest scholars who have enriched the Harvard community. Yet it has had meagre success in the attainment of a primary goal, which was to lure students into the realms of extra-curricular...