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...education. The Dean of Barnard College and your own editorial writer contributed to an important tendency in American education when they insisted that teachers should not study "method" before they know thoroughly the subjects they are to teach. This is indeed an important truth, but it is only a half-truth. Teachers should know their subjects thoroughly and they should also know what education is about, what its processes are, and how its undertakings should be organized and managed. In other words, you can't make an educated educator simply by teaching him a subject. Henry W. Holmes...
This is not quite a half-truth. According to the story of Porter Smith whose testimony seems quite regular and reasonable, he did not strike a single passenger, but defended himself against passengers who sought to strike him. It is also important to note that, according to Smith, the emergency axe was only secured by him after the emergency box was broken open by some one of the passengers or the train crew, who took out the emergency sledge hammer, the same having been seen in the possession of one of the passengers...
This bizarre half-truth was shrieked in Manhattan, last week, from the platform of a hall into which had jammed 5,000 men, women and children, all members or hangers-on of the Workers' (Communist) Party. This group of U. S. Reds looks for leadership to the dictator of Soviet Russia, silent, ruthless Josef Stalin; and consequently hates and fears famed Leon Trotsky, whom Stalin has booted out of Russia despite the fact that Trotsky was one of the first and greatest leaders of the Soviet Revolution, the friend of Lenin and the creator of the Soviet army...
...Lawyer Longley read with amazement the following newsflash from Detroit: "The legal department of the Ford Motor Company has been abolished and its entire personnel dismissed as of next pay day." Pressed for explanations, Lawyer Longley grinned. He knew, of course, that the despatch had stated only a half-truth. It was true that the Ford company had abolished its legal department. But Lawyer Longley, as a member of the Detroit firm of Longley & Middleton, remains chief Ford counsel, and with him will be most or all the dozen lawyers who sensationally "lost" their jobs...
Apparently a truism, President Lowell's statement assumes the pale glimmer of the half-truth under critical inspection. The fashionable institutions, according to his speech, may survive for some time because of their reputations, but unless they approach the educational merits offered by their rivals, they will fall into grave danger. All of which sounds well, but means little. Being president of one of our foremost exclusive universities, Mr. Lowell is in a position to make such a statement without laying himself open to accusations of envy and pride, but we wonder if he has any very clear idea...