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...Learning in America. Mr. Hutchins proposed that U. S. universities try to restore order to a confused world by teaching people the truths uttered by the great philosophers of the past. Gideonse replied with The Higher Learning in a Democracy. What Mr. Hutchins proposed, said he, was "intellectual dictatorship." Lest anyone be misled by the Hutchins theories, Gideonse reported that in practice University of Chicago was being guided not by its president but by its faculty, was stressing "the understanding and enrichment of twentieth-century human life in all its phases...
...Lest the school fall into too deep a rut, each of the 28 houses in which Eton boys live changes its name and its tutor every 16 years (three Eton generations). The curriculum changes more slowly. A hundred years ago every boy studied Greek and Latin, today most still study Latin, about half Greek. But now all boys must take mathematics, science, French and history. A revolutionary development in this 500-year-old classical school is the popularity of its new workshops, where about 100 of Eton's 1,150 young aristocrats, in their spare time, use lathes...
Still his mother's son, Johnny Goodman refuses to be lionized, particularly by the Omaha bourbons in whose company he feels uncomfortable lest he make a faux pas such as saying "amachure" instead of "amateur." Amateur or amachure, he is the best his sport has produced in the U. S. in a decade...
...Lewis' observers, the board acknowledged that "unauthorized stoppages of work and strikes have resulted in the breaking of contracts with employers and the unemployment of thousands of workers." It also decreed that leaders or abettors of outlaw strikes may be suspended or expelled from the union. But lest congenitally independent U. A. W. A. members suspect a sellout, it pledged that "should the management attempt wage cuts, the impairing of working conditions, or the refusal to settle legitimate grievances . . . the International Union will not hesitate to authorize strike action...
...slept on a home-sized bed next to him, Seabiscuit occupied one third of the 80-foot horse car* Owner Howard had chartered (for $1,500) for the trip. He watched the scenery through his car windows, walked around for exercise, was carefully fed only water and hay lest he get trainsick. Unlike most thoroughbreds, who are so nervous that they sleep standing up, Seabiscuit relaxed on the hay-covered floor and slept most of the time...