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...would some measure of Federal direction or control of the recipients of its aid be a good thing? On a broad policy level, should Washington have some practical voice in the aims and methods of the school systems which are so vital to the Nation's well-being? A quick yes-or-no answer to these questions is impossible. Their implications are too broad. What is clear, however, is that more widespread consideration of the possible merits and drawbacks of some Federal control of education is needed if an intelligent policy is to be developed...
Beyond this, he will not commit himself, as the fall tournament amounted only to a quick trial, from which he derived no permanent rankings. Inexperience among his players is the chief problem before him, and because of this he predicts a "checkered but improving season. Quite a few of the boys show promise, but everyone will need a great deal of practice before steadying down, and for that reason it will probably be very much of an up and down year," he sums...
When Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen described the devil to his radio audience (TIME, Feb. 3), Unitarians were quick to note that Father Sheen's Satan sounded like nothing so much as a good Unitarian. Last week the Unitarians came out swinging. Hopping mad was jowlish, Netherlands-born Author Pierre van Paassen (Days of Our Years), a Unitarian minister (with no parish) since January...
Like most outdoor tennis players, he found the indoor game on boards confusing at first; the ball seemed to fly through the air faster, and shot off the varnished wood floor in a quick, disconcerting skid. On board floors a "big serve" and severe volleys are almost unreturnable...
Today, with its biggest enrollment in history successfully swallowed and with a gradual return to normal expected to start next fall, the University stands astride the conquered problems of the immediate postwar veteran influx and contemplates the coming problems of readjustment. Pausing only for a quick glance backward on a nearly finished job, Wilbur, J. Bender's 'Report On The Veteran" in the current Alumni Bulletin throws a penetrating searchlight onto the matter of Harvard, the veteran, and the future. As Counsellor for Veterans, Mr. Bender has ponted clearly to the problems which, as the next Dean of the College...