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This notable magazine from Yale still holds its artistic typographical gloss, but the front and back covers are nearer to each other than ever before, and the articles themselves are rather anaemic. There was a time two years ago, when the editorials in this journal of seething youth would bring noisy recognition from all quarters, but that is hardly possible in the case of the present offerings. In "Educational Meringue," an editorial on Yale's newly founded equivalent to Harvard's "History and Lit", the editor does not want to give the authorities a whole hand for breaking down...
...that of the present Harvard Inquiry in discussing fairly both sides of the question, and at the sacrifice of a definite decision, to learn the pros and cons of the situation. It would also be much more to the point if the organization would espouse some live issue nearer home, such as a discussion of the Fascist tendencies in the United States; or, if they must condemn something, let them try Mr. W. R. Hearst...
...session the Association of Railroad Labor Executives trumpeted: "The organized railway employes announce their unyielding opposition to every program for increasing unemployment . . . by either reducing work or cutting wages. . . . Every measure of so-called 'economy' which reduces the total income of the wage earners brings nearer the day when millions of dispossessed, destitute and desperate people will be goaded into seizing the food, clothing and shelter to which they have a right by the supreme law of self-preservation. . . . If the days of competition are ended, then the only monopoly control which the people will tolerate is actual...
Peter's Bones, Another matter which the Pope has been considering is a shrine nearer home. In a crypt beneath St. Peter's is the reputed tomb of the very founder of the Church. After Christ's resurrection Peter was delivered from jail in Jerusalem by an angel, went to Antioch and then, according to some Protestant and all Catholic opinion, to Rome, where during Nero's persecutions he was crucified head downwards near the spot where his basilica now stands. St. Peter's head is in St. John Lateran. His body is supposed...
...turn back the subtle inroads of this form of philistinism only the sped of suggestion which awakens broader interests in needed. The plan of throwing students together in Houses is being tried, but it would seem that the difficulty might be attacked much nearer its root in the system of courses. If, for example, Professor Whitehead gave a lecture to the Freshmen who take Mathematics A, explaining the significance of mathematics in Philosophy, the mental horizon of all the intelligent students in the course would be appreciably widened. The same scheme, modified for various fields, would work successfully in almost...