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...Social dynamite is building up in our large cities" because of the failure of the public school system to meet its responsibilities, James B. Conant '14, President, Emeritus, warned in a statement to the New York Times yesterday...
Especially disturbed by the Negro slum neighborhoods in which half the boys between 16 and 21 are out of school and out of work, Conant proposed a series of specific measures that he claimed are "drastically" needed...
Summarizing his book Slums and Suburbs issued on Monday, Conant called for the schools to continue to provide educational and vocational guidance for youth until the age of 21. Expansion of work programs and meaningful courses are necessary, he said, as are programs to secure the co-operation of parents...
Emphasizing the need for increased funds to problem schools, Conant stated, "The contrast in money spent per pupil in wealthy surburban schools and in the slum schools challenges the concept of opportunity in American public education." The Negro student will benefit more from improved schools, he added, than from token integration across zoning lines...
...these distinguished early contributors, the Review has added many more. Henry Adams, Winston Churchill, Max Beerbohm, Leon Trotsky. Robert Frost, Andre Gide, Thomas Wolfe, Thomas Mann, Rebecca West, Aldous Huxley and Dr. James Bryant Conant, former president of Harvard, have all appeared in the Review. The Review's range of interest is wide, running all the way from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter ("Law and Order") to the late Humorist Robert Benchley ("The Typical New Yorker"). The Review was one of the first U.S. publications outside of little poetry magazines to publish the singular verses of French Poet...