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...first and second parts of the report immediately sound the tonic note an clarion tones. The Committee has made a conscious effort to reduce the uncertainty, insecurity, and bewilderment which nag the shorten the period of probation before a permanent appointments. Such also is its formulation of definite and positive criteria for advancement. The young teacher will now know what to aim for, what to stress; and he need no longer cower so abjectly before the dread god Publication. Together these recommendations should effectively dull the Demolition sword suspended over the lower academic ranks...
Doubtless Phi Beta Kappa men are fully aware that they alone are capable of saving the helpless rest of civilization from accidental suicide, but they have certainly been incredibly listless about doing it. So far, all they have accomplished has been in the line of rallies featuring the clarion call of intellectualism and reiterating that the world will be much safer when it is entirely in their hands...
MORTON F. MCKINNEY Clarion...
...some strange creatures on Clarion Island, he writes, "One was unquestionably a mipt!"* and in the same pool he saw swimming by "a school of friendly old abudefdufs" mingling with pale green surgeons...
Joseph Stalin's letter contained not only an appeal but also a statement: "The aid of the international proletariat appears to be a force without which the final victory of socialism in one country is not to be decided." That was not precisely a clarion call for world revolution but it was enough of a hint of old-fashioned Bolshevism to set off speculation on a possible shift in the Communist Party "line." For the keystone of the "line" has lately been not world revolution but co-operation with the capitalist democracies for a collective stand against fascism...