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...TIME-believer Flushing's Morris Myers, M.D. errs (TIME, Nov. 21) if believing: "In the picture Faithless that 'she has become a prostitute to get money for the doctor.' " The writer, screenplaywright of Faithless, and his late great & good friend, Producer Paul Bern, made sure of factual deference to known and admitted medical ethics, caused the discussed situation to hinge on only the Bankhead-spoken lines, "The doctor didn't say where I was to get the money for these things?"-a definite implication of satisfactory medical attention-and the Bankhead return with a drugstorish package...
...they have been in bits concentrating on specific periods of Germanic literature. Since the German Stage has created and maintained for nearly two centuries the highest development of dramatic art ever seen in the world's history, it is imperative that there be some correlation of all the factual knowledge and critical discussion of the subject...
...ideal introduction to a science would have to devote the larger part of its time to getting the factual basis, but it would then go on to study the open questions and problems to which the details lead, the hypotheses and inclusive formulae developed from them. It would thus foster an intelligent and critical view of its subject-matter. This is not outside the scope of genuine scientific procedure, which has always been and should be self-critical, and fully aware of its own limitations...
...centered around a core of practical philosophy considerably different from his own. The American student abroad has an excellent opportunity to develop the social and intellectual poise so necessary in later life. While the primary result of study in Europe is not definite in nature, as for example the factual knowledge which can be acquired at any good American university; it consists of the less material but more lasting goods of life. Of course, a man completing a closely-knit plan of work would be injured by the break that a year's absence would introduce. But such...
Before the invention of printing lectures were the chief means of conveying factual knowledge. Today, when books of every sort abound, there is no longer need for a "transfer of material from the professor's notebook to the student's, without its passing through the mind of either." Lectures which are little more than an oral correspondence course have no place in the college...