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...generally consider myself one of the less vociferous elements in the Catholie Church, but I find that the state of discussion brought forth by President Conant's objections to private education has failed to make clear what seems to me to be the crux of the Catholic position. That position is very simply that Catholics would rather not send their children to a full-time educational institution that does nothing to teach them the most important thing they have to learn. The religiously neutral school envisaged by the advocates of universal public education is an impossibility. To believe that citizenship...
...Gurdjieff, who died in 1949, enjoyed his peak vogue among highbrows in low spirits during the '203 when he operated an "Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" at Fontainebleau, France. Crux of his medical doctrine: that man has three natures, intellectual, emotional and instinctive, and gets ill when he develops one at the expense of the other two. Cures practiced at Fontainebleau included tree-chopping and complicated "dance-exercises" to any of 5,000-odd tunes composed by Gurdjieff. For Katherine Mansfield, he prescribed a stay in a cowloft, so that she coftld inhale the air the cows...
...doctrinal crux of the letter lies in the sentence: "Nevertheless, the College has an inescapable responsibility to lay down regulations which will help to maintain the highest standards of personal conduct among its students or at least not encourage a departure from such standards." But what are these "highest standards of personal conduct" of which Dean Bender speaks? Surely they could not be defined to exclude personal cleanliness, regularity of study habits, of refraining from over-indulgence in alcohol. Yet the College makes no attempt to regulate any of these, precisely because it has "confidence in the maturity and intelligence...
...would break off diplomatic relations with [Russia and its satellites]. I would go into full mobilization ... I would go to the real perpetrator of all this, because it is not the Koreans-the crux of this thing is in the Kremlin...
...propose without being accepted. How to propose realistically and how to keep their acceptances and refusals in accord with your whims--immediate and future--Is the crux of the perfect line." Or so said "Vanity Fair," a magazine which was avid reading material for the Class of '26. Other literati were getting free seats to "Oedipus Rex" at the Opera House by being part of a Theban mob which ran up and down the theatre during one scene. "I think that Harvard students make a very creditable mob..." the show's director said...