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...more significant is the concentrators' almost unanimous opinion that the method and scope of teaching in the department is seriously in need of revision. Too much emphasis is laid, they feel, on political theory: they approach, it is felt, is too analytical, too scholastic, in the strictest sense of the term. The department treats too exclusively of the art of government, paying too little attention to its practise. In courses as in tutorial work--throughout the whole work a student does in preparation for his final examinations--the outside world is far too often regarded as a scientist regards...
...Strictest neutrality is the policy to which the United States is committed in the Ethiopian struggle. The Senate intended to insure this by the much-discussed neutrality legislation, and an overwhelming majority of the people obviously approve. Nevertheless, despite--or perhaps because of--their profound desire for peace, a majority equally overwhelming support Great Britain and the League in their effort to apply sanctions against Italy. It is the old American dilemma--the desire to interfere yet to remain uncutangled, to advise but not to execute...
...Taken aback by his fortune, Lawyer Rackham did his best to ignore it, living modestly, carrying on his practice, shunning publicity. His philanthropic career almost ended in a fit of hysteria when the Detroit Community Fund revealed him as the donor of $20,000. Later, in strictest secrecy, he financed archeological expeditions for the University of Michigan...
...privilege of studying with Copey will long remember him as one of the greatest in a justly famous and fast vanishing group of humanists. While remarkably familiar with every nook and cranny of English literature. Copey was not--nor would he claim to be--a scholar in the strictest sense. But there is something in the fact that yearly the Harvard Club invites Copey to New York to give a Christmas reading; there is something in Copey's annual intimidation of a thousand freshmen--in the position Copey carved out for himself over a long span of years, is some...
Britain's Lord Chamberlain, world's strictest censor, saw no harm in Within the Gates. When the play opened in Manhattan last October, half the critical choir went into ecstasies over its allegory of a bishop's illegitimate daughter (played by Lillian Gish) who becomes a prostitute and dies in a raffish poet's arms unshriven by the Church. Since the bishop's creed was left scrupulously unspecified by Playwright O'Casey, no faction of the New York clergy felt impelled to lead an assault on the drama's heresies. But as soon...