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...economy measure which has hampered the progress of scholarship since September, 1932. It has seemed incredible that of all the possible ways of saving money, Harvard should fix upon the closing of the library, the very heart of the University. It has seemed even more incredible that it should persist in the measure long after its error had been almost universally recognized...
...lighting of the room itself and of the hallway. It may very well be that the advantages accruing to the college from having the reading room open in the evenings are far outweighed by a light bill of $100. Perhaps Mr. Tillinghast and the Library officials will persist in feeling so. It is a conviction to which they are entitled. But one fears that it will gather them few laurels in the name of reason...
...answer is that Fascism, far more easily than Socialism, can go unrecognized if we are determined not to recognize it, if we persist in speaking in individual and not in political terms. If Huey Long is not a Fascist, if Louisiana is not a Fascist state, where in the world is a Fascist, and where is Fascism? Louisiana is being governed under an imposed dictatorship, preserving only the formalities of parliamentarism. It is being so governed by a group historically associated with the solidification of the present social and economic order. The trouble with forums and the people who patronize...
...Veblen's vitriol to clear eyes and a sharp critical talent. More than any other man of the twentieth century, Veblen pierced the syllogized "classical economics" with its ridiculous labor equations and its mumbo jumbo on the credit system. It is through no fault of his that these things persist in the colleges of the nation, for much of his energy was spent in attempting to force them out. Mr. Bates remarks that he was handicapped, in his later years, by a delusion of prophecy that made him see himself as the Marx of the American working class, a role...
...athletics or otherwise." The most cogent argument against this is that these men are not representing the University at all, but are representing their respective Houses. If the University is to be consistent in its policy of giving to the Houses a certain measure of autonomy, it surely cannot persist in regarding what is purely a House team, chosen through intramural competition, as a University team. This is, in fact, the crux of the matter, and once University Hall confesses to this attitude the whole business can be left to the Houses where it properly belongs. Inasmuch as the House...