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...really good editorial policy to make a fetish of accurate reporting? How many dozens, or hundreds, of current events teachers do you suppose have rejected TIME for the same reason...
TIME views hardboiledness with alarm, nevertheless cannot ignore the considerable fraction of the contemporary scene which is hardboiled. As to "fetish": if TIME had one, it could be none other than accurate reporting. As to current events, TIME competes only for the favor of those who are prepared to encounter any and all facts.-ED. Sirs I hereby order you to stop sending your publication to my home - 7 Webster Road, East Milton, Mass. . . . Any publisher who will gloat over the lan guage used in your issue of Feb. 1 (p. 4) is not deserving of the support of decent...
...Catholicism of the Protestant Episcopal church they attacked him (TIME, Nov. 17). And they really caused last Sunday's row. Ever since he was ousted as Judge of Denver's famed Juvenile Court (TIME, Dec. 16, 1929 et ante} Mr. Lindsey has made a fetish of companionate marriage.† He has crusaded for it in magazine articles and lecture halls, acquiring a certain martyrdom which is not without its financial compensation.** Last fortnight he and his friends tried to arrange a debate on the subject with one of Bishop Manning's priests, who declined...
...easily able to test ability by one or a series of informal tests. The only excuse ever offered to conscientious objectors is the necessity to retain some disciplinary check on the student. In a university where even the faculty upholds liberalism to a point amounting almost to a fetish, where paternalism never rears its ugly head, and where a premium is placed on individual responsibility, the system of hour examinations is a paradox; a conflict between fine theory and actual practice. Since they mean nothing, their abolition, except possibly for the first year, would remove from Harvard another petty trace...
...individual guidance of young minds who must be shown the inspiring possibilities in gathering knowledge, the chief requisite seemed to me to be teachers who not only were qualified to teach but loved to teach. We therefore sought inspiring teachers wherever we could find them, disregarding the modern fetish for research and weighing not only the ordinary and official recommendations as to a man's teaching ability but the opinions of his former students... In other words, he was not considered unless he had that divine gift for guiding and encouraging others which is the essence of good teaching. Hamilton...