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...consistent with a somewhat conservative University tradition, he has indeed done something of which he may be proud. The Red Book Committee has not made any radical changes--and in that it has shown its great wisdom, for the tendency of young editors of such year-books is to discard all that the experience of many years has shown to be of value. On the contrary it has apparently sought to improve what has been poor in former volumes. For instance, nearly all the group pictures have been made larger, with the result that even in the class group...
Books are rapidly being thrown into the discard as the final examinations draw to a close. It is now that the weary student sells them to the second hand dealer for a mere trifie--by the pound, it would seem--and invests the proceeds in something far more refreshing. In the ecstasy of finishing his last blue book, he looses his sense of values and treats his books like old clothes...
...must learn, and he understood that the way to encourage it was to offer attractive rewards in the form of freedom and progress. What he says about a rebellion of Youth we must take with a grain of salt. He himself hardly wants Age to be thrown in the discard; what he does want, artfully, is for Youth to want it so; because he knows that only through the discontent of Youth can progress be made; improvement does not come until Youth discovers and exposes the shortcomings of its Botters...
...sees the new and cannot leave the old." In the main it is well not to have the changes every minute, for conservative enlightenment makes for the most profitable advance. We can all clearly see the new, and most welcome it; the problem is to discard that of the old which is obsolete. And the first step is unified exemption, for Seniors, from routine...
...Workshop that it takes many years to train an audience to be intelligently critical; what would happen if a group of persons, untrained, and fired with a peculiar zeal, were set down before the footlights with the injunction: "Pick out for us what is salacious, and discard it; being careful not to disturb that which is true art and literature, even though it deal with subjects that are immoral"? As we might cite the criticism that fell upon the head of W. L. George, author of "Caliban...