Word: chases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Urging in the current "American Mercury" that college studies be applied more to the unpleasant realities, Harry Woodburn Chase suggests that they be "devoted to really learning something about the world," a world which Mr. Chase sees in terms of the problems of contemporary life. To him such subjects as economics and biology are the cream of the curriculum. But while man's income and digestion are of major importance, the tradition of higher education has been to concentrate upon celebration...
Many thinkers have not been able to explain knowledge of the world with Mr. Chase's facility. Educators, moreover, persist in teaching what he would call the impractical arts but the students versed in this learning and training by its discipline are not likely to approach current problems with the confidently preconceived prejudices of many of our realists. If intellectual understanding and unbiased thinking are the products of such an education it is the kind of training modern youth desires...
...Soon Mack Sennett was a tycoon and had his heart's desire-a huge bathtub in his office. This tub was a favored spot for conferences; it was a mark of favor to be invited to share it. Keystone Comedies gave the U. S. three standard favorites: the chase (most Sennett pictures ended in one), the custard pie, the bathing beauty...
Beliefs: Thinks Stuart Chase is "our outstanding economist." Says that "private bankers control credit on the basis of what's in it for me. Let us give back to the Federal government where the Constitution placed it, the control of currency and credit." Mr. Goodwin places all his eggs in the Townsend Plan basket. This plan provides for a monthly pension of $200 to all men over SIXTY with the proviso that the recipients must spend it all within the month. The money is to be raised through a sales tax, but when the committee questioned him on the details...
...have brought such questions into the limelight is greatly to the credit of Mr. Chase. It is valuable and refreshing to hear such frank criticism of the University, which possesses so many elements of truth. Cortainly, Mr. Conant and his advisors will do well to consider them carefully...