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...Aldous Huxley says: 'Every dog thinks its master Napoleon, hence the popularity of dogs.' That is not the strict truth. Every dog adores its master notwithstanding the master's imperfections of which it is probably acutely aware...
...Julian Huxley, in the current New Republic, supplies a remedy for the seemingly short-sighted wartime policy now followed by American universities. His article points out the fallacy of confining colleges to programs of military preparedness with no thought of the post-war task of helping to organize and reconstruct the world. Huxley suggests that Harvard be transformed into a "United Nations University" devoted to turning out trained men for the period of reconstruction and recovery. The proposed program of study would include both general training at the undergraduate level and specific instruction in the graduate schools and specific instruction...
...Council averred that Julian was junked because of "financial stringency owing to the war." But London's scientific circles, knowing that Huxley had already accepted a 50% cut in his $6,800-a-year salary, had even offered to work for nothing if necessary, sniffed a more rooted reason. The Council headed by Lord Halifax's brother-in-law, the Earl of Onslow, has long disapproved of Huxley's liberal politics (frequently propounded in newspaper articles), his outside activities (weekly appearances on the BBC's popular Brain Trust program) and his blasphemous innovations...
Said Scientist J. B. S. Haldane, one of the Council members who opposed the ouster: "Huxley is in America with the backing of the British Council. . . . His dismissal will spread considerable alarm and despondency among professional workers because it discourages people from doing work for the Government...
During Biologist Huxley's absence, practical biology in London's Zoo has carried on. Five white male goats were born to the Royal herd. The bear cages are crowded with the addition of seven brown cubs. Five baby Bactrian camels of Russian descent are expected to arrive sometime next month...