Word: hale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again the present educational system in America has been challenged, this time a by a college undergraduate rather than by a professional educator. W.H. Hale, in the current issue of the Harkness Hoot, has accused the American university of debasing its function by stooping to popularism and then trying to cure the evil by legislation on requirements, by the establishment of new institutions, and by the erection of costly buildings...
Educational reform is unworthy of the name, Mr. Hale believes. Chicago has made an important advance in abolishing departmental distinctions and making higher university training open only to exceptional men, but neither Chicago, nor Wisconsin, nor Rollins--the three most radical in education reform--have gone to the root of the ineffectiveness of colleges, the immaturity of the American undergraduate...
...House Plan, the Sterling Library, and Yale's Institute of Human Relations Mr. Hale holds are only imposing superficial palliative measures where drastic changes are needed. In his enthusiasm for his main thesis, Mr. Hale has overlooked the real value in such institutions as the House Plan. His claim that further development of social life in the Houses will strangle independent scholarship can hardly be justified. Quite aside from the possible disadvantages of an undergraduate life devoted to pure scholarship, there is no reason why the unpretentious social relationships in the Houses should interfere seriously with intellectual achievement...
Despairing then, he hurries towards the exit portal of the sanctuary. And the last thing that greets his departing eye, at the end of the nave, is a telephone booth, designed as a fourteenth-century confessional. William Harlan Hale in The Nation
...political fate of the Chicago mayor whose slogan was "Keep King George Out of Chicago," and who had threatened to "bust King George on the snoot," was front-page material in London last week. Nearly every paper in the city reported the defeat of William Hale Thompson (TIME, April 13), in page-wide banners and lengthy editorials. Even in Paris the headline of La Liberté was BIG BILL BEATEN...