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...self-defense, as well as to fulfill the obligation of public service, all institutions of higher education must educate not only their own students, but the people at large, to value such institution for that unique service which they alone are qualified to render. They must not be expected to be retreats for the tender minded, clubs for the privileged, factories for the manufacture of standardized products, or even training centers for specialists, but communities of freedom where the art of freedom is taught, portside, learned and so deeply implanted as to last for life...
...Bentley (Britain): "A patrician urbanity of style other schools of design have failed to render obsolete...
...Flemish painting," Michelangelo is supposed to have jeered, "is to women's taste, especially the old and the very young, and for monks, nuns and all distinguished people who are not susceptible to true harmony. In Flanders they paint principally to render, deceptively, the outward appearance of things, and especially subjects which bring rapture or are irreproachable...
...offering by each individual to his own loyalty, to a totem, a kindred in this case with legions and generations of Harvard men. But such a sacrifice must not come unaccompanied by clear understanding and appreciation. The mass form assumed by the celebration tends constantly to render this appreciation more difficult and it is only the strict avoidance of set formulae and taboos which may keep it from becoming less rare. The graduate who brings his family back to parade and cheer is rendering homage to his totem, but the parades and cheers are not the basis thing. And unless...
...same program, William Carlos Williams, author and poet, will render his poem "Desert Music." The program is open to the public...