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...takes a brave man to enter Social Relations these days. He must be able to find his way around in almost amorphous field, and endure the constant jeers of his friends. But if he sticks it out, he will find that he is well-prepared for practically anything he may want to do after graduation...
...this essay, as of several of the smaller ones, is the struggle of men to remain more than mere cogs in an impersonal, institutional machine. The "right to a private existence, unconditioned by history and society," is Mr. Huxley's shibboleth, the one he propounded so effectively in "Brave New World...
...Salesman Sam. A product of McGuffey's Reader and the International Correspondence Schools, he had a fierce faith in God and in the attitudes and platitudes (an honest day's work for an honest day's pay) of the last century. He was a living, brave and battered testimonial to his credo...
...racing it. He took tough, skinny, worshipful Eddie Rickenbacker, already a crack mechanic, to Garden City, Long Island, to ride with him in the Vanderbilt Cup Race. Eddie found it an intoxicating experience. For the next six years -grease-stained, speed-mad, and thirsting for glory like an Osage brave-he crisscrossed the continent as a combination car salesman, trouble shooter, racing mechanic and dirt-track driver. Then, at 22, he hit for the big time...
...brave new world" seems to be dawning for undergraduate organizations, however. If the Dean's Office and a Student Council committee have their way, student groups will soon be enmeshed in a 33-page network of rules, many of them codifications of recent Dean's Office attitudes and many of them new. Some of them, if strictly enforced would put several activities out of business. All of them are based on a theory of administration which breaks sharply from the policy which Harvard has followed with notable success in the past...