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...think that after having once lived in them the rest of life would be exile. They have cost millions, and millions are to be spent. Why this lavish outlay in college already richly endowed. It is in the hope contriving and intellectual climate ever more friendly to that mysterious ferment which here and there causes to rise in some human breast the yeast of a creative life-purpose...
STREET SCENE?Ferment in a tenement...
...collegiate athletic contests to one game per year in each of the major sports is President A. Lawrence Lowell's conception of good sense, and it appears to be such good sense that one wonders why he has kept it to himself so long. College athletics are in a ferment now, if one look to the press, but if one centers one's eyes on the universities, one sees authorities that refuse to look beyond their money-bags, meanwhile mumbling that all is well...
...Catholic Centre Party, which holds a key position in the German Government coalition, draws its strength chiefly from voters in the Rhineland, and these were in a ferment of fear last week lest the "new" and "immoral" Young Plan conjured up by Dr. Schacht should give France the right to reoccupy the Rhineland in case Germany defaults on her Reparations payments...
...Harvard, the tutorial system and the "reading period"; at Swarthmore and elsewhere, the honors plan; at Antloch the alternation of study with outside work. So the ferment goes on. We are fast getting away from what Hutchins of Chicago calls the country club idea of college and approaching a type of education that will make men and women more fit to cope with the new civilization. --Judge