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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Myron Simons '40, "Dean" in this play, was acclaimed by Blitzstein for his interpretation of "Junior Mr." last year. Miss Frances Morison, of Cambridge, is another veteran of the "Cradle." She will play "Joan Burke," mistress of one of the dead...
Novel and refreshing, judging by standards now in vogue, are the theories of teaching outlined by the poet Robert Frost in a recent interview with the press. Mr. Frost, who is conducting a weekly class at Harvard this year, holds no brief for stereotyped spoon-fed education. He states frankly that for him education is a take-it- or-leave-it affair in which he will "just keep silent, or even lie down on the desk until it is realized that what I want is self-starters, not followers of a set routine...
Such an attitude comes like a breath of much- needed fresh air in an academic world grown somewhat musty with too much concern for the mechanical means of education and too little attention to the long-run ends. Though one can perhaps charge Mr. Frost and those of his kind with trying to sensationalize education, so passive has the intellectual role of college students become that it takes considerable effort to jar them out of the well-marked grooves in which they slide along and to force them to do independent thinking . . . Fed several times daily on a diet...
...found in the fact that colleges and universities have so increased in both size and numbers that they include in their classes many unfitted to receive a liberal arts education. Just as there is no single cause for a decline in the number of students classed by Mr. Frost as "self-starters," so there is no single panacea which will remedy the situation. However, the inclusion on university faculties of men of Mr. Frost's liberal outlook can do much to bring to the surface the desire for understanding and learning which lies at varying depths in the minds...
...mass of shawls and woolen scarfs one winter evening to ring the doorbell at the home of a Virginia Congressman. Inside the house a manservant began unwinding the bundle. Out of it came the Secretary of State, General Lewis Cass, born in 1782, seventy-nine years old, whimpering: 'Mr. Pryor, I have been hearing about secession for a long time-and I would not listen. But now I am frightened, sir, frightened!'"A month before Lincoln's inauguration the Confederacy was already under arms. And young Henry Adams wrote to his brother...