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...Barber and his staff their most acute embarrassment of the week. FTP Vaudeville Production 4-A was booked to appear at Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, while Production 3-A was to be sent to amuse U. S. soldiers stationed on Governor's Island. Through some stupid blunder, the soldiers, to their great disgust, were offered 4-A, a skit called School Days in which frisky scholars tossed apples at their teacher and blurted low-calibre puns. To Stuyvesant High School, on the other hand, went 3-A, a divertissement called Parisian Nights. Intended for military consumption, this...
...Hanfstaengl gift did not give a clear statement of the University's obligation, which was to accept. We do not question the action of President Conant in refusing Dr. Hanfstaengl's original offer; and we have no doubt that the recent form letter sent him was a blunder. However, Dr. Hanfstaengl's reply, made in good faith, rendered a second refusal impossible...
...same time, John W. Boldyreff, Assistant in Sociology and likewise a vacation guest at the Roosevelt household, mildly lamented the passing of what he called "a blunder in the right direction...
...This blunder is even more significant as one of a series. With the officious and unsympathetic air of a pompous egotist, he has constantly terrorized undergraduates suspected of misdemeanors, when human treatment might have elicited accurate information and prevented humiliation and error. We are forced to conclude that Colonel Apted's tenure of office has been detrimental to the best interests of the College and recommend his immediate dismissal on grounds of incompetence...
...only when the crass, nationalistic realism of today is firmly borne in mind can contemporary dilemmas be understood. It is a mistake to look for idealism as a motive in the world of today, and it is a hideous blunder to let idealism put America in the role of the avenging angel. The bases of wars may be economic, but the consent of the people is won only through appeals to their souls. America must not misread the facts and yield to that common hallucination, the call of destiny. Otherwise this country is likely to undertake another Crusade for Peace...