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...outgrowth of the administration of the East India Company, the British Civil Service has always drawn intelligent, widely trained graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. Diametrically opposed in principle, the United States has demanded men of highly specific education directly fitted for one particular pigeon hole. The result has been that Britain's public servants as a rule have been men of broad administrative capacities, far-seeing and able; ours, on the other hand, while sometimes competent in their own narrow field, have not possessed the breadth of view necessary to make really useful public officials...
Harvard cannot immediately revamp the preparatory school structure, and it may find outright adoption of the Chicago plan impracticable. But by a number of partial reforms it can succeed in widening the pigeon-hole horizons of its undergraduates. The modern language requirement should be pushed off onto the prep schools entirely, and pressure should be brought on those schools to prepare their fledglings more fully for the flight into Higher Learning. In addition, Harvard can broaden the scope of its own introductory courses, in order to make them less of a "closed shop" for concentrators in the field...
With education splitting itself into more and more scaled pigeon-holes, such a revision would offer a broad and stable cultural sweep to the undergraduate. During his first year and a half at college he would gain perspective, he would study the field of human experience before tucking himself off in a corner of applied Biology or Urban Sociology. At the slight sacrifice of the choice of a few distribution courses, he would add a definite content to his liberal education upon which he can build...
Inside, Comrade Browder was in rare form. The U. S, Government's passport-fraud case against him, said he, is "as thin as homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death" (a quote from Abraham Lincoln). Mr. Browder promised to show during his trial that "many highly respected businessmen, jurists and statesmen" had traveled "under pseudonyms...
Last week Chief of German Police Heinrich Himmler was proud as a pouter pigeon. Having proved strangely inept as a cop, he redeemed himself as a superb detective-story author. Serially, from day to day, he released his mystery thriller, The Bürgerbräu Plot...