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...favorable and adverse has been circulating among those interested in Harvard affairs in regard to the proposed use of the Littauer bequest. The new School of Public Administration, although still in an embryonic state, has at last been defined and planned out. It has been argued by many who profess to be authorities on the subject that the only way to train men for government service is to apprentice them to those in public offices. This method is the only one which has been tried out, and its results do not preclude the possibility of the even greater success...
...Service of the University to the Community" might lie in their chiseled correctness next to the more controversial Hanfstaengl correspondence and Dr. Conant's letter to the Overseers on the Walsh-Sweezy case. Hard by would be the vital messages on "The Inaugural of the Littauer School," "University Profess ships" and an "Athletic Endowment." This volume would also contain President Conant's cheery greetings to bewildered Freshmen and his closing speeches to mellowed alumni...
Roosevelt: "Macaulay condemned the American scheme of government based on popular majority. In this country 80 years later his successors do not dare openly to condemn (it) . . . for they profess adherence to the form. . . . They love to intone praise of liberty, but in their hearts they distrust majority rule because an enlightened majority will not tolerate the abuses which a privileged minority would seek to foist upon the people as a whole...
...Americans are much more experimental in their attitude toward science and public affairs", said J. G. Crowther, one of the foremost science writers in England and scientific correspondent in London of the Manchester Guardian, in an interview shortly after his arrival from England yesterday afternoon, speaking of the profess of science in Europe and America...
...these prescriptions do not appeal to the self-indulgent side of any individual student's nature, a moment of consideration, must convince him of their validity. Stiff examinations, after all, help a man to measure his strength if he so desires, and to no other purpose can he conscientiously profess. Exhaustive inquiry into a single subject, moreover, is far and away superior to peering cautiously into a great many questions, only to scuttle away as soon as they begin to look difficult or exacting...