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Robert M. Hutchins, President of the University of Chicago, used last Sunday's New York Times to lash out at what he calls "the confusion, waste and uncertainty of American education." He advocated a plan to award the bachelor's degree at the end of Sophomore year at college, thereby ending the average student's general education at the age of 20 and allowing "the students who want to go farther, and are able to do so," to start working for their master's degree in their Junior year...
...Jane Seaver, co-director of O. C. D.'s youth division, who also includes an estimate on the proper balance of educational and defense activities in war time. Accounts of activities of the major student groups are written for Threshold by members of the organizations concerned, while Joseph Lash edits a column of ISS Notes. Also of fundamental interest of students is the description of the "New Deal for C.O.'s" which tells of the fine work done by the Quakers and others in setting up work camps for religious pacifists. Finally, Mike Levin's article on the high-pressure...
...Roosevelt had ambitious plans for her bouncing friend Joseph P. Lash. She thought that Joe, a gradually aging youth leader, should get a commission and make his wartime career in the Office of Naval Intelligence...
Although he has since turned right and always did deny that he was a Communist Party member, ex-pinko Mr. Lash did not look like quite the fellow the Navy wanted in its very hush-hush intelligence office. It turned him down...
...three purposes behind his drive. First he wanted Rangoon, unloading point for the supplies that go up the Burma Road to Chiang Kaishek. Second he wanted to dig in there against the day when he could lash out at India. Finally, he wanted to beat the British to the draw in their "must" offensive against the Japanese supply line to Malaya...