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...which might well be followed by other sections of the University, where no exam is ever graded on time, and where the rule is made to fit the case as it arises, with consequent loss of time and money. Sentimental lovers of the calm and gentle may grumble, and cling to their outworn ways; the cold, gem-like flame that animation the bowels of Converse will burn on, unflickering...
...protective criticism in a report from a survey being conducted by the American Association of University Professors. The report maintains that university teaching suffers by being put second to research. Contrary to what one would expect, it states, professors "working on the frontiers of knowledge in their own fields. . . cling tenaciously to traditional habits of thought when their work as teachers is concerned." According to the report, professors, in order to favor their own original work, disregard any consideration of teaching problems. The departmental system. It is concluded, is the "key log in the educational jam" "narrow departmental ambition" draws...
...Emperor Henry Pu Yi, Mr. Litvinov of the Soviets, King Zog, the King of Siam and the Maharaja of Mysore wear 'em. Horn-rimmed glasses have become international. They are still the best first-aid to those desirous of that intellectual look. The real ultra-highbrows, of course, cling severely to a pince-nez with black ribbons...
...neat distinction you drew between the ''legal" and "practical" aspects of the War Debts (TIME. July 18). But as self-interested Americans, don't you think you do yourselves a disservice to so emphasize the legalistic view, the view to which blind yahoos from our hinterland cling, unmindful of what is sighted by our international financial lookouts from the topless towers of New York? The men who know most about money tell us that until the War Debts are out of the way, international trade must plod and stumble. They tell us that the private loans...
...likes especially the traditions, now fast fading, which cling around the College Yard. For him each one as it passes is a laurel plucked by ruthless hands from John Harvard's pate. The Houses in their crass contemporaneity he is reconciled to not by the vulgar convenience of dining-room and private shower, but purely as breeding-grounds of the traditions of the future. In the meantime he feeds his soul on what remains of times done: the charming fatuity of a raucous voice calling for "Rinehart!" and especially the Yard Concerts, which are always with...