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...myself I truly believe that Plato has great things in store for the young man and young woman who will study him today," said Professor C. B. Gulick '90 yesterday afternoon in his lecture on the eminent Greek philosopher, whose writings like Shakespeare's furnish "a text for every discourse." The lecture was the first of a series on five great authors to be given on successive Wednesdays during the next month for the benefit of Harvard and Radcliffe students...
...Budapest, the police ruled that the Hungarian text of the famed Banana Song is immoral and must not be sung in public, ordered a jazz band in a popular cafe to cease playing the melody. The indignant musicians asserted that a melody cannot be immoral, filed a protest with the Department of the Interior...
...World printed a brief editorial correction with the text of Mr. Harding's and Mr. Hearst's letters on the opposite page. The following morning The New York American (Hearst) reprinted on its front page all the same matter, under the headline: MR. HEARST UNJUSTLY ACCUSED, SAYS THE NEW YORK WORLD...
...book is written primarily with a view to being used as a text in a school of journalism. The newspaper profession nowadays requires men with specialized training, just as does the law, or medicine, or any other profession. Perhaps it might not be too irrelevant to remark, in passing, that one of the great needs of Harvard University is a school of journalism; one that could rank with those of Columbia, Cornell, Northwestern, Wisconsin, and Michigan. But to return to the subject in hand. With a view to its use as a textbook, Mr. Basian's work is divided into...
...There are scholars, Dr. Beard included, who work up their lectures every few years in text-book form. Such books, however, distilled as a refined product out of their study, are not the same live material as the original lectures. Furthermore, from the stand-point of the publishers it is not practicable to bring out new editions with every advance in a subject. In consequence, text-books are often very much out-of-date. So, with the constant revision and revaluation of knowledge, the lecture is the instrument in education best designed to accomodate itself to the needs...