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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind and in action before changing circumstances. That is why Liberalism has always been associated with a passionate interest in freedom of thought and freedom of speech, in scientific research, in experiment, in the liberty of teaching, in an independent and unbiased press, in the right of men to differ in their opinions and to be different in their conduct...
...Atlantic writer supports the rapidly growing group of educators who insist that far, too many attempt to go through college. "The public must be made to understand," the article runs, "that individuals differ as widely in their educational needs as they do in their physical appearance." The popular fallacy that every man should go to college, that unintellectual, though not necessarily unintelligent, men ought to have academic training is doubtless at the bottom of the inconsistencies of some college curricula...
Axias. Somewhat like credit unions are the axias, formed mostly among foreign language groups in big eastern cities. They differ in most cases from credit unions in that their managers take profits. They do a $50,000,000-per-year business, most of it unregulated and at high rates...
...panelled library, placed on the second floor just back of the common room, will resemble Dunster's in size and shape, but will differ from the libraries of all other Houses in a high vaulted ceiling. An adjacent stack room will be two stories high, and will bring the capacity of the library to about 15,000 volumes...
...scholar, Massachusetts judge, senior jurist of the nation's highest court, liberal dissenter from conservative majorities. Said Dean Charles Edward Clark of Yale's law school: "So often has he been ahead of his generation in scholarship as well as opinion that we may well hesitate to differ with him for fear he but expresses the views we will hold tomorrow...