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...Erechtheum" is edited by James Morton Paton '87, Gorham Phillips Stevens Hon, '22 has measured, drawn, restored the building. Lacey Davis Laskey and Harold North, Fowhem '80 contributed to the text...
Sirs - In a recent issue of TIME (March 28) you mention a number of American presidents who had "smart sons" .... I think you overlooked President Garfield, father of a college president, a noted architect and a prominent attorney of Cleveland. JEAN PATON...
Passing to educational problems from a discussion of the disused human brain in a New York Times interview yesterday, Dr. Stewart Paton of Princeton put no undecided finger on a type of modern educator that is heartily regretted everywhere, while at the same time there seem to be no immediate prospects of getting rid of him. "Are we generally interested in art and literature," asked Dr. Paton, "or are we primarily interested in finding an occupation where, unprotected by academic walls, we can live in an imaginary world far from reality?" Thus he voices the general suspicion that more than...
...surprised to realize that, as the demand for education increases, more and more people are attracted to the profession of teaching, not, it must be said, through prospects of a money income, but because of the leisure the academic life is supposed to include. The professor at whom Dr. Paton was aiming would, in economics, be called the marginal professor...
These opinions have been repeated, with varying emphasis and from different lines of approach, by other college presidents and educators. But the most vigorous pronouncement of all came this week from Dr. Stewart Paton, the psychiatrist of Princeton University and trustee of the Carnegie Institution at Washington. He calls football as played today "a menace to the mental and physical welfare of the players, upon whom its long, grilling practices and tense games impose an often unbearable physical strain." Fortified by investigations into the case of a boy who was found to have played through a whole game...