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Accordingly, if the Committee on Admission can be no liberal and progressive as to vote quietly a measure of lasting importance, there is reason to hope that the progressive , spirit like that of spring, will invade the cloistered halls of more than one Department, and give impetus to courses which enable those limiting their study to one field, to broaden their outlook through an understanding not so much of the particular leaves in the various branches of learning, as of the whole branch itself--and above all, of its significance for the modern world...
...interesting chapter on "The Inferiority Complex in Art" Mr. Fry relates the modernist cult in the arts with the democratic spirit in politics. The lack of culture in the ruling mob he believes is one impetus to the success of modernistic art which panders to the naive mass of uncultured culture seekers. He believes that the phenomenon of this new art presents a problem for profound study by psychologists. "The deification of ugliness and obscenity, the urge for mutilation, deformation, muddy color and exaggeration, are all symptoms," he says, "of sadism, indicating a form of psychopathiasexualis...
Breeding Profitable Dairy Cattle is not a modest book; it was not written by a modest man. Backed by an imposing array of hard fact, cold logic and concrete results, it is intended to give conquering impetus to a great campaign. Its avowed purpose is nothing less than "to do for animal husbandry in the 20th Century as much as was done for crop farming in the 19th Century by the invention of agricultural machinery." It was written by a rich, disputatious, immensely learned old gentleman named E. (for Ezra) Parmelee Prentice, who is a son-in-law of John...
...experience of all countries who have tried to end Communist activity by legislating against it has shown that such action only gives the movement added impetus. Activity is carried on secretly instead of openly, and the clandestine movements attract many who might not otherwise be interested...
Phillips Brooks House has laudably fulfilled a function not strictly in accord with its purposes and having given the movement impetus it rightly refuses to assume further obligations. When it issues its report next week the responsibility for supplying the commuters' needs will rest squarely with University Hall. Only two alternatives present themselves: positive action on the part of the administration to solve a pressing problem or the substantial curtailment of admitting commuting students...