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TIME does me the honor of supposing that I chose the great books-"classics"-which are the required textbooks at St. John's. Except for the addition of numerous scientific works, the list is substantially that used for many years at Columbia University in its honors course. It is now published by the American Library Association under the title Classics of the Western World...
...books studied but, curiously enough, it omits the books read in the fourth year. The books are read chronologically, and the fourth year, which is devoted exclusively to "modern thinkers, modern science," includes among others: Voltaire, Marx, James, Freud, Faraday, Darwin, Russell & Whitehead, Hilbert, Gauss. I suspect that St. John's College is the only liberal arts college in America which requires of every student four years of laboratory science. It also requires four years of mathematics, four years of languages...
President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all men who are students at the University at the President's house, 17 Quincy St., on Sunday afternoon, November 13 between 4 and 6 o'clock...
Conspicuously avoiding a discussion of controversial theological issues in his treatment of the subject "Christ As Leader And Lord." Dean Walter R. Matthews, of St. Paul's London, delivered the third of a series of William Beldon Noble Foundation lectures last night in the Memorial Chapel. Only a short portion of his talk was devoted to the Trinity, emphasis being placed on a choice which dean Matthews defined as between two conceptions of the leader...
...clash of these two ideals was strikingly symbolized in the recent international crisis," the Dean of St. Paul's continued. "Whereas the dictators were completely preoccupied with becoming heroes through domination, Chamberlain was motivated by a desire for service and international fellowship...