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...number of students affected in this way is probably much smaller than Professor Edman would have one believe. The average undergraduate seems rarely to find his love of abstract Beauty and Truth so strong that is causes him to shrink from existence. However, there are undoubtedly a considerable number of sensitive men who go through such an experience. That this is an evil seems self-evident. Education is simply instruction in the art of living, and when it becomes divorced from life it loses all its meaning. The fundamental remedy for this situation as for a considerable number of other...
...purpose of the Left Wing, it was explained, is to encourage undergraduates, not to shrink from radicalism as such, but rather through frequent discussions to comprehend the various forms it has taken and, perhaps, work out more satisfactory solutions. Unlike the political clubs now existing in the University, the Left Wing will have no definite platforms or policies, but will be one in which all schemes, particularly radical ones, will be expounded, discussed, and revised...
...Fahrenheit, but that does not begin to phase thorium oxide. Its melting point is probably over 6,000 degrees, which, of course, no thermometer can measure. It is used commercially in gas mantles. A gas flame does not affect it, but an electric arc may. The oxide does, however, shrink in volume at high temperatures. Thorium oxide has been utilized to make crucibles for holding molten platinum. The oxide itself was melted only in a hollow formed in a heap of its own powder...
...With any plan for limitation, every appropriate means of ascertaining the qualities of an applicant ought to be employed. All this involves a grave responsibility for the authorities . . . but one which they should not shrink from assuming...
...Gatti was an ardent Wagnerite then, as he is today, He had made a specialty of Wagner at La Scala. And he had brought with him a prodigious Wagnerian conductor in Toscanini. And then he was a first-rate master of economical management, the sort of man who would shrink a deficit. It did not take the clever business men on the Board of Directors long to observe that. They supported him vigorously. With such sure support an impresario is in a favorable position to deal with singers. The gentleman from Milan understood the art of handling vocal artists. With...