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There is a liberal leaven of light editorials dominating those with a more grave tone, the range of subjects sweeping from vendettas to evangelists. Mr. Davis' somewhat scholarly article on "The Study of Contemporary Literature in College" is an intelligent and comprehensive treatment...
That is why a greater leaven of radicalism in college teaching is desirable. The question whether a certain group of ideas be inculcated or not is of slight importance compared to the need of arousing real intellectual turmoil. A great many staid conservative students wander unsuspectingly into Economics A, and are startled to learn that protectionism is not a doctrine of certified divine origin. It worries them for a time to find that the universe of thought is not entirely plotted into straight, narrow, and exclusive paths; then they weather the crisis and return smugly to the old beliefs...
...hardly necessary to say that a department composed entirely of extremists would be far worse than one without the leaven of radicalism. The ideal situation would be to have both sides of labor, corporation, labor-union questions and the like presented by men with strong convictions pro as well...
...leaven of the number is Mr. Barlow's "Religion of the Beautiful." Though this aesthetic theorist hangs his philosophy upon the identity of beauty and fitness, between which Aristotle once made a serviceable if relatively forgotten distinction, his eagerness gives his article a readable quality which cannot be credited to some other writers on the same subject...
...MORNING PRAYERS. Rev. F. J. McConnell, D.D. Subject: "The Leaven in the Meal." Appleton Chapel...