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Scholarships which make possible study at foreign universities have received a certain amount of criticism in the past. One often hears that the very numbers of Rhodes Scholars at Oxford is a handicap to the individuals--that they can never really belong to the true Oxford, and conversely that foreign students in American colleges can never hope to get the benefit from their college years that American students receive. But the make-up of the Harvard Law School places every man on an equal footing. There is a minimum of social distinction, and an equal opportunity lies before native...
...cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender lyric lines to caress, wrested no deep significance from the great human comedy. Many kind critics suspended all judgment until further hearing. The stranger...
Proud that "60% of the 358,442 subscribers to the Course and Service are Senior Executives . . . the average age of Institute subscribers is 37. ... One out of three Institute men is a university graduate," the Institute modestly insists: "You will never find us claiming that every man who enrolls in the Institute becomes a president. (But of the men who have enrolled, 45,000 are presidents.) . . . We don't take credit for the fine records made by our graduates any more than Yale or Princeton or Harvard take credit for theirs...
...Haldane takes philosophy seriously. To him, philosophy is only another word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems to me to imply a faltering in religious faith. . . . Men of science . . . will never accept any belief in supernatural interference. Belief in the self-consistency of the universe is for them equivalent, in ultimate analysis, to belief in the existence of God." Philosophy (religion) has a very practical importance "in bringing consistency into the relations between different kinds of knowledge." Philosopher Haldane...
...Ejected from a restaurant, he soon found out what his mother never taught him, that if you were a nigger you were degraded. The thing to do was find a menial job. You could be a "sweetback" (Negro gigolo). Taylor was not, but he was chauffeur, porter, valet. Later he toured with Circusman Ringling. But he was not satisfied. Something new was growing in him now-he wanted to sing the woes of his race. Like many a Negro he felt a queerly mixed hatred and love of his people...