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...Cornell (B.A. 1927) and Harvard (Ph. D. 1936), he is a devoted small-college man. He believes that institutions of Wesleyan's size (about 700 students in peacetime) supply a social education that the big university has "tended to blot out." Says he: "We must . . . provide a ferment in American society . . . creating a sound social leadership...
...brought to the city numerous white workers from the South who have deep racial feelings; that housing conditions are bad; that Detroit is a fertile field for crackpots and agitators of all kinds, like the sinister Gerald L. K. Smith . . . that new employment opportunities, as well as the general ferment of ideas caused by the war, have given the Negroes greater economic power and greater ambitions. ... It would have been far more wholesome if the committee . . . had addressed itself to the need for better housing, to an examination of Klan activities and to a study of the methods and purposes...
...water, a ton and a half of molasses (on whose sugar the yeast feeds) and ammonia (which provides nitrogen that the yeast converts into protein). The mixture is kept warm, stirred by 1,000 cu. ft. of air a minute (without air the yeast would ferment the sugar). After twelve hours the prodigiously growing yeast, having multiplied its original weight 16 times, is a ton of flavorsome food. In its uncooked form it is a dry, light, brownish powder with a meaty, nutty or celery flavor, depending on the variety...
...quick, critical look at U.S. education (some $2,000,000,000 a year) was taken in FORTUNE's July issue. In "Ferment in Education" FORTUNE's editors shared the widespread feeling that even the best U.S. schooling has limited educational value, but plumped strongly for more of it (at Federal expense, if need be), arid for a better kind...
...stodgy government of Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos, onetime rich Athenian banker, was still in ferment. In an effort to placate the liberal element formerly represented by Kanellopoulos alone, four old ministers had been replaced by four new ones. Greek Army Fascists had been tossed out of the high command of Free Greek battalions in Egypt and Syria. The Government has promised to resign when Greece is liberated, and weak-willed King George has likewise promised to "conform to the will of the people...