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...fires of controversy over liberalism which blazed viciously at Amherst upon the resignation of President Meiklejohn last June have apparently burned out; but rather than dross and ashes they have left a refined conception of a liberal college which has found expression in the program published by twenty-six alumni in the Amherst Student. There is nothing remarkable, however, in either the ideas or their phrasing. The definition that "a liberal college must be one in which the intellectual aim is dominant" and one which will thoroughly ground the student in the essentials of "an intelligent scheme of values...
...three great departments of it?to discharge the high duties imposed upon it?yea, more, the peril of permitting a party to select men for such places. This Teapot Dome is a crucible in which a great political organization shall be tested, and it is found to be dross. That is the reason the elephant trembles from trunk to tail...
...streams of population that have been and are pouring in upon us are age old in racial character and capacity. We are the melting pot. Into it has been poured, almost promiscuously, every dross ingredient of citizenship that the earth produces, the good...
There is alarming evidence that what politicians and sentimentalists love to call the "melting pot" is fast becoming clogged with unmelted material and dross. For a number of years and enormous tide of immigration has been pouring into America. With woefully inadequate restrictions, all comers have been accepted without questioning there inherent fitness for citizenship or even their purpose in seeking a new land. Once the immigrant has been received into the country, we have trusted assiduously but blindly in the faith the some mysterious alchemy of the melting pot would eventually create a simon pure American...
...been truly said than man does not live by bread alone. History is crowded with instances illustrating the fact that men have cast off this mortal coil as so much worthless dross when impelled by the demands of some spiritual truth. Other men have endured the greatest hardships and privations in their endeavors to create the beautiful in form, in sound, or in color. As it has been with the religious and artistic spirit in the past, so is it with the modern scientific spirit. The desire to find out the secrets of nature impels men to trudge over Arctic...