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...demonstrating that they can be just as thorough, and far broader, than existing elementary courses. The Faculty may well balk at compulsion, but if introductory area courses are available, and undergraduates are required to distribute widely in all the major areas, the courses will be virtually mandatory without the stigma of compulsion. When this is done, distribution will be restored to its proper function, and will serve to offset the over-concentration which now characterizes the average undergraduate's formal education...
First is the general usage of such terms as Trojan horse, subversive agents, fifth columnists, etc. It occurs to me that none of these carries the full stigma of the old terms spies and traitors. The full impact of feeling of contempt is lost. One might even consider himself smart in being a fifth columnist, but never in being a traitor...
Result is a book that rescues Coolidge from more than one depression-inspired stigma; will certainly evoke a few nostalgic memories. But to call Calvin Coolidge a definitive biography is only a euphemism. Of no U. S. President has the definitive biography been written, including Washington, longest dead. Of Coolidge least of all-a President whose character baffled millions-is it likely that either the last fact or the last interpretation has been turned...
...high praise. No mere praiser of museum pieces, Miss Olmsted is glad that many of he ceramists who enter the show are commercial designers, that the interest the show has inspired has spurred better design in mass production. Her aim: to remove from mantelpiece art the stigma of an inferiority complex...
Calisthenics attracts a good number of men. This form of exercise is well-suited to the needs of the lab man, who can make the 5 o'clock classes. Corrective exercises, despite the stigma of the name, are often enjoyable, and many men continue to do them long after their defective condition--usually posture is removed...