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...announcement of the Loewenstein Fellowship marks the first practical step toward the easing of the path which connects college with the public service. The American political system, based upon party pyramids, has made it necessary for the college graduate to waste his most valuable years in routine party boot-licking, a task sufficiently unpleasant to drive any thoughts of a public career from the minds of many talented young men. This new fellowship proposes to bridge the gap between study and political activity by enabling the student to gain practical experience and the all-important contacts while he is still...
...played a very small part indeed, indicating plainly enough that his job is as yet too big for him. The Boston Herald advertising itself "a Republican paper and proud of it" has muffed its big chance to pin the Governor, and has lost a good slice of circulation to boot...
...replace "petty inferiority complexes" with "true professorial pomposity" itself "smacks of the bull-ring" more than of the editorial column. To attack the plan by calling the originators of it names is a confession of the writer's own inability to think of any better arguments. To call it "boot-licking" simply because it is a system which has been used at Oxford and Cambridge is arguments by epithet...
...educational trend, it is only another queasy kow-tow to the Oxford-Cambridge reliquary of worm-holed 16th century poppycock. Some judgment should be employed even in boot-licking. It is to be hoped that President Conant will curb the P. T. Barnum tendencies of the Department before any New York vaudeville engagements are made...
...military tyrants and threw his army on the side of the exiled Emperor Go Daigo. The Emperor's side won. Having set Go Daigo, descendant of the Sun Goddess, back on his throne in Kyoto, Takauji Ashikaga lost no time in pulling himself up by the sacred boot straps of the Emperor. As the Emperor's most trusted adviser he hoped to become Shogun. When Go Daigo appointed his son instead, Takauji, furious but resourceful, persuaded the Emperor that his son was a traitor, had him put to death. Next he worked on Go Daigo's army...