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...General Education Committee's celebrated report have spread everywhere. But only in the confines of the College can its vital significance yet be even partially realized. Plans are under way for introduction of totally new courses conceived and planned in a storm of publicity. Men of letters expound the General Education Report much as the learned theologian quotes the Bible in seeking guidance. Yet one wonders whether, when all the shouting dies, the same professors, with their same limitations, will not be giving much the same courses...
Some gallerygoers may be surprised to find that, on a lot of things, the Greeks were at least 25 centuries ahead of time. The Met's sparkling show is full of ancient Greek ideas that are glibly called "advanced" when present day artists expound them. Samples...
...high marks in college entrance examinations, is calmly confident that the prep-school trend is "away from so-called progressive education." High point of the celebration this week was to be a performance (but in English) of Aristophanes' Clouds. Students dressed as roosters would stand behind bars and expound the theme of education-for-its-own sake: "The greatest of all blessings is to live and think more clearly than the vulgar herd...
...sons of Palestine," they had come to Cairo for the express purpose of killing Moyne, they said. Tsouri and Hakim had leaped on the running board of Lord Moyne's car. Hakim had shot the Minister, Tsouri had stabbed his chauffeur to death. Then the prisoners began to expound the Stern credo of violence. They justified the assassination as an act of war against a foreign invader (Britain). Austere Mahmoud Mansour Bey, the presiding judge, tried vainly to halt the torrent of burning words. At last he ordered reporters not to record them. The prisoners, he ruled, could...
Pius XII last week used his annual Christmas message to expound the Vatican's views on world politics. This was the first of six wartime Christmases at which Fascist guards have not stood ominously at every entrance of Vatican City. And this time, without giving democracy direct support,* the Pope clearly lined up the Roman Catholic Church with a democratic organization of the postwar world...