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Thank God for Adler, who believes in teaching students to think. Every year universities confer more & more degrees, and every year it seems the national I.Q. drops a bit lower. Going to college is fashionable in the same way the poodle cut was, and any education obtained is not only merely incidental, but often accidental. Students are put through an assembly line of ideas and are told what to think. Any deviation from the accepted, any originality is frowned upon...
...confer on world exploitation of Quo Vadis, M-G-M last week brought its managers from 37 countries to Rome. But since no mere managers' meeting could possibly spark the proper promotional fire, M-G-M put on a $100,000 show called "Colossal Quo Vadis Conference" that nearly rivaled the blaze of the $6,500,000 picture itself...
Admitting that it is desirable to keep Communists out of education at this time, Charles R. Cherington, associate professor of Government, said that to do so by state law is to confer too much power upon the state. "It is a case of the majority bending too far to placate public opinion," he said. "The real role of the Court should be to protect minority rights, even though the minority may be a most offensive...
...stamps, but she will not need them; her personal mail is franked. She can drive as fast as she likes in a car which needs no license number. She can tell her sister Margaret when she can marry, and will surely advise her on whom to marry. She can confer Britain's highest civilian decoration, the Order of Merit-one honor in which the Sovereign retains freedom of choice...
...signature on it, Mr. Winthrop Wetherbee '87, and began to read in a dramatic tone of voice. "The first occupant of this room was Harcourt Amory '76, who bored the hole in which this document is to be placed... Any person discovering this transmittendum in after-years will confer a very great favor by communicating with the writer. May all luck be with each occupant of this old room...