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The chief thing which startled me on arriving back in Cambridge," said Dean Pound to a CRIMSON reporter, "was that my book the "Spirit of Common Law" had been translated into Japanese, and two copies had been sent to me. I have spent quite some time trying to decipher my...
Whenever some public-spirited savant brings forward a method of dealing out information wholesale, by means of "predigested news" or "educational films", or "fifteen minute-a-day" reading courses, there is usually more or less definite disparagement by those who are devoted to the "good old days" and apparently want...
This marginal controversy may be interesting to those who take part, and in some cases amusing to those who follow, but it seldom adds to the literary value of the book. It is not conducive to the best study, for we note that the author of the above remarks did...
If we are to let such reasoning dominate us, however, then we shall wallow in the pool or stagnation. I know of one very small matter which I feel needs prompt and serious attention. The idea seems trifling because it can be summed up in one word-blackboards. I ruin...
Added to these are the illiterate aliens who are constantly growing more numerous. Last year we had two and a half million foreigners who could not read a word, even in their own language; there are many others who are classed as illiterate because their native script or letters are...