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...every issue it will be the policy of the Critic to include an outside article by some well-known scholar, educator, or man of affairs: Among these Professor Harold J. Laski is appearing in one of the early issues. The Critic further plans to devote at least two pages of every issue, to book reviews, and to publish adequate criticism of books of serious and general interest. In so doing the editors feel they are filling a gap left vacant by all other publications...
...American Federation of Labor, is enough to upset the scales. The case against the Roosevelt myth has been drawn up by the employers, who show convincingly that they can no longer afford to make the concessions which the administration demands. It has also been presented by Mr. Harold Laski and Mr. John Strachey, who point out the same obvious fact. But the employers have nothing but a sterile and angry refusal; Messrs. Laski and Strachey can offer a solution. TERTIUS...
...Harold Laski has pointed out that the chief significance of Mr. Roosevelt's administration is that it represents the first great attempt to achieve fundamental social reform with parliamentary methods. Since Mr. Harold Laski has already said that fundamental social reform could not be accomplished by parliamentary methods, because "fundamental social reform" means public ownership, he obviously regards the attempt as part of the pathology of political science. After one year of churning and fuming, and after Mr. Johnson's conference, the measurable results are only these, that the administration has built up a large and unsanctioned machinery...
...inadequacy of the present agencies, Harvard might with expedience and point, undertake a similar experiment. The lectures, as at New York University, could be given weekly at a convenient time and place. Members of the faculty might occasionally take the stand, and such men as Harold Laski, George Soule, and Edmund Wilson could doubtless be obtained with slight trouble or cost. Dealing with the political, social, and economic difficulties which beset the world, and seizing upon undergraduate interest in such problems at its present intensity, the course should not suffer from lack of attendance. It would, to a certain extent...