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Passivity & Protest. "The teachers I know," says Green, "agree almost unanimously in preferring to teach what may be called advanced academic subjects . . . The pupil takes these subjects because of some intellectual spark of his own." The required courses are something else again. Of 26 pupils in a tenth-grade English class, for instance, three might be outstanding students, 13 might range from "medium to poor." five may be "very poor," and five may be "incapable of doing anything that could properly be labeled tenth-grade English. They do not write a sentence; they do not know or care about capitals...
...which man becomes a tiny pin in a gigantic mechanism. How can man be preserved? The answer seems so fragile, so hypothetical, that people understandably mock it. It is simply that we need an act of faith in man-faith in his profound worth and in the divine spark he contains." For faith is the bridge to the future. "This is Rome at the time of the barbarians. It is falling apart. But that doesn't mean the light won't shine eventually...
...product of helping underdeveloped areas, the establishment of a worldwide trading corporation centered in and operated by Western Europe could spark the sagging economics of industrial European states by opening up for them new markets and sources of raw materials. In addition, cooperative economic aid activity in Western Europe would bind even more closely together the countries of the North Atlantic area, enhancing that solidarity which is the most potent obstacle to Red political inroads in Western Europe. It might also reduce the fierce export rivalries between the nations of Western Europe...
Whig-Clio's motives in asking Hiss probably were several. Student interest in current affairs topics had dwindled, and Whig-Clio wanted to do something to spark sagging attendance at its lectures. Though they knew that Hiss could impart no special information on "The Meaning of Geneva," they were genuinely curious about what he would have to say. Whig-Clio undoubtedly was interested to some degree in the publicity of a Hiss appearance, but of course had no notion that it would create such an unfortunate furor...
...level-headedness of undergraduates was just what the newspapermen wanted to see break topics had dwindled, and Whig-Clio wanted to do something to spark sagging attendance at it's lectures. Though they knew that Hiss could impart no special information on "The Meaning of Geneva," they were genuinely curious about what he would have to say. Whig-Clio undoubtedly was interested to some degree in the publicity of a Hiss appearance, but of course had no notion that it would create such an unfortunate furor...