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...Penn. Thanks to TIME I have endeavored to make up for this lack of college education by assiduously reading your educational weekly since its birth. Similar to "Philosopher'' (not Funnyman) Rogers, about all I know is what I read in TIME and the papers. A telephonic check-up this morning on Georgia Tech., Oglethorpe University and Agnes Scott College reveals that these "narrow-minded'' southern institutions of learning all have TIME on their library lists and have no idea of ''striking" it off at expiration of present subscription? They have the welfare of their...
...thorough mapping of the prairie region for use in an annual census and check-up of breeding conditions...
...lectures is spent on an exposition of obscure questions about which scholars have debated for centuries. Little or no attention is paid to general critical works on the authors studied or to a development of a true literary appreciation of the works read. It is true that a check-up is necessary to make sure that the translation has been done, but this should not be made the most important part of the courses...
...University where there is no check-up on the emotional and social adjustment of the individual, although such a check exists in theory, the presence of experienced men can be an immediate help to men in the houses, and in addition to all the other benefits of such a relationship it may possibly prove a stimulant to the moribund art of conversation which has increased in importance now that men find themselves at leisure from the hurly-burly of business life...
...Hoover's problems and the thoughtless waste of money on the undeserving, and the waste that goes on of materials in government kitchens, etc., the excessive personnel, I wonder how it can be. It is astonishing. The mess hall is accessible to outsiders, little or no check-up being made on those who come in to eat. . . . This looks like disloyalty to those who have acted in my interest instead of the taxpayers. But I have no sense of loyalty to persons. There is an outside loudspeaker in the home grounds. (We get free entertainment, too: radio, theatre, movies...