Word: hale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having demolished, brick by brick, the architectural monstrosities of Yale and fashioned, with some degree of acumen, a literary bludgeon against the social customs of that University, William Harlan Hale, co-editor of The Harkness Hoot has gone farther afield. He has taken Harvard and Princeton, along with Yale, to be his province, and widened his vehicle by means of the columns of the New Republic...
...current issue, Mr. Hale deplores the passing of youthful radicalism. Examining his field, he has found that interest in politics is a memory, individualism in clothing a vanished tradition, and intelligence in undergraduate publications an anachronism. His argument, in fact, is that college men ape their elders sans discrimination or examination. His conclusions are brief: the House Plan at Harvard and at Yale will not minimize, will rather aggravate the present condition of ignorant indifference. The only solution, he feels, is the addition to a dogmatic faculty of a few liberal thinkers...
...true. A pattern in lieu of an individual may conceivably be the product of House units. And if faculties are such fools as the writer believes they may carelessly allow a hot-head or two to wiggle into their midst. In one of his minor digressions, Mr. Hale attacks Professor Babbitt of Harvard. From the tenor of the article, one might expect Professor Babbitt to be the epitome of the author's desires. Not a hot-head to be sure, but the humanist has on occasion provoked intelligent and original thinking; even his undergraduate opponents, and they are legion, will...
...DEAN ACADEMY ab h po a e Hale 5 2 0 0 0 McDonough 4 2 1 3 1 Sherry 5 1 4 2 0 Weafer 4 3 7 1 0 Livingston 4 1 2 0 0 Shortell 3 1 0 0 0 Weddleton 4 0 9 1 0 Smith 3 1 0 0 0 Dower...
...Hale goes too far in condemning the House Plan, there is nevertheless validity in his fundamental point that colleges, if they are to foster mental development on a high level, must limit their numbers to the few men who are equipped through interest, training, and ability, for really advanced academic work. Attempts to hedge between the democratic ideal of mass education and the ideal of developing intellectual leaders of some calibre have had unsatisfactory results in both directions, as the storm of criticism during the last few years shows. The colleges are squarely faced with the necessity of choosing between...