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...members of the faculties to comply. However this may apply to the other institutions involved, it is not wholly valid in regard to Harvard, which agreed several years ago to pay taxes on a large part of the University plant in Cambridge. In any case it is difficult to see why individual members of the faculty should be forced to make good the alleged remissness of the Harvard Corporation, especially since the majority of them live in Cambridge and are taxed accordingly...
...easy for a spell-bound generation to submerge the mind in the man. And only when the headmaster has been partially forgotten can the education be accorded his significance. For thirty years, Doctor Stearns has labored to make easier the difficult step between school and college. So-called progressives find much to criticize in the result; for there remains considerable old-fashioned iron in the Andover scholastic methods. Through all the fads and "isms" that have swept through America's educational system, Doctor Stearns has clung to the belief that the preparatory school is the place where a youthful mind...
...Andover. And the most unfortunate aspect of his retirement is that at just this time, when conservative continuity is needed as never before, sickness has deprived the school of that influence. It would be all too easy to enumerate the qualities which his successor should have, all too difficult to discover them in any one man. It is sufficient to point out that although the resignation of Doctor Stearns has cleared the way from an interregnum to a new regime, it has also placed Andover at a critical point in her career. It will be difficult to discover...
...elaborate courtesy El National, official newsorgan of Mexico's Government party, praised President Hoover last week for withdrawing the last U. S. Marine from Nicaragua (TIME, Jan. 9), diplomatically concluded: "Mexico was a spectator in this complicated story of international interests fighting an unequal battle. It is not difficult to guess toward which side our thoughts were influenced by fraternal sentiments...
There are difficult problems of selection, examination and administration yet to be solved. But there is small chance of failure. The spirit which should imbue the Society is only too well understood by those who have dreamed of it for years, and who will be responsible for its organization and conduct. President Lowell has often asserted that it matters little how much factual knowledge a man absorbs in College provided that he graduate with the right attitude toward scholarship. The Society of Fellows is stirring reiteration of confidence in that belief, and a means to proving its value. The foundation...