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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S anonymous editors certainly rise above plain journalistic style every so often. Your small classic, "Background for War" deserves to be studied by every class in English. It is written in that best and most difficult to achieve of all English language writing - clearly and simply and apparently without effort...
...first selection for the Houses having been made, the second selection remains, possibly more difficult to apply for than the first. To aid in solving this dilemma for those rejected on their first try, it is necessary to clarify certain points which seem to have caused some confusion, both about the application and the associate member plan...
...matter stands, there is an unfortunate division of opinion among the Housemasters about the wisdom of rearranging first and second choice of Houses between the first and second application. For the Freshman is placed in a difficult position in not knowing how each Housemaster will react if he changes his second choice to first in his later application. It may even be wisest to refrain from naming any House in the second application...
...other courses only to the extent that good teaching in one division implies good teaching in the other. We think Mr. Bunde's conclusions bear usually a likeness to truth: many of his comments seem reasonable, though marred by a lack of ability to weigh merits in a difficult and complex field against weakness, by a lack of the tolerance and appreciation which would make for a truer kind of truth than his sometimes thin reasoning confidently attains...
...much for the ideal. The details of the course of action remain to be outlined, and these will prove hugely difficult. For one, the University proposes rapidly to extend on a large scale its existing facilities for supervision and guidance. This is hardly enough. This would amount to the institution of tutoring merely to compete with that in the Square; and not even on equal terms, since its scope would be more limited...