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...from liberal undergraduate opinion to take issue with Zona Gale upon the faults and fallacies of education by examination. At this period of the year the evils of examinations seem hugely disproportionate to the good, and the mob impulse lurking even in indifferent Harvard breasts surges forth to cry "Down with 'em!" at the first sign of a leader...
...alas for disillusioned hope! Zona Gale might have been acclaimed the new liberal leader, had it not been for her speech at the Old South Forum. Her views on censorship are broad enough; it isn't that. She called censorship "un-American", and that was too much. Even liberals, though they turn their backs on the past, have not entirely forgotten the rudiments of American history...
...Miss Gale, who was sitting in the lobby of the Copley Plaza hotel, thought a moment and then continued, "Every branch of human activity is undergoing an extension of freedom today. Religion, art, government, education, they are all changing their forms, outgrowing them, and advancing to a higher plane...
...Miss Gale, who left Boston yesterday, said she had a talk with John Callahan, state superviser of public instruction in Wisconsin while he was here presenting the official offer of the presidency of Wisconsin University to Dean Pound...
When Miss Gale was informed that the University was in the midst of the annual mid-year examination period, she laughed and said, "That reminds me of another point I should like to bring up. I do not believe in examinations. They ought to be abolished...