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...among them would throw themselves upon the recommended pabulum and would try to absorb it in a very frenzied fashion. They read rapidly, desperately and far too much. And because they tended to believe that all facts (and only facts) were important, and, what is more, equally important, the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will probably suffer for the rest of their lives...
...result, said Berlin, is that scholars and intellectuals find they can no longer believe in their scholarly or intellectual pursuits for their own sake. "Once a community automatically begins to consider disinterested curiosity as being something idle, time-wasting, self-indulgent and, therefore, immoral, it is in a very bad way . . . Few great works of art, or great discoveries of science, have ever been made by men with one eye on the social consequences of their activity...
...plain-spoken book to "provide a bridge to modern poetry for readers . . . brought up on prose." And since "poetry is an art of the ear's discrimination," he would persuade a record company to issue an album of readings by the poets discussed in his book. The result: this batch of essays on modern poetry and an identically titled album (Columbia, 8 sides, $4.95; or LP, $4.85) of readings by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas and other modern poets...
...anonymous gift of approximately $5,00 in memory of William DuBose Sheldon, LL.B. '88, who died in 1943 as a result of Naval service in the Pacific has been received by the Las School, Dean Griswold announced last night...
Telegrams and other inquires--some from Harvard groups--may result in defection or modification of the Navy loyalty oath's so-called "informer clause," Rear Admiral J. W. Roper, Chief of Naval Personnel, told the CRIMSON yesterday...