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Yesterday Mr. Conant began his speech by asking the question whether a "free and classless society" was a valid ideal or an illusion. Thereupon he set out to prove that the former was true. His argument might be staked out in two claims: first, that the essence of a classless society is a high degree of "social mobility"--or equality of opportunity for each member of a new generation regardless of his inherited social position; and second, that this social mobility can be largely obtained by, education. After hearing him out, most of his listeners must have been unconvinced...
...team. One of his jobs as a reporter was to interview Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. Bill, married only a few days, took his bride along to impress her. But Stefansson was irritable. Said he: "If you are any kind of reporter you won't need to take notes." Thereupon he tore through a staccato monologue, dismissed his interviewer...
...dramatic surprise, was grave. He wanted their opinions, he said, as to whether he should make public the message he had received. He told them what it was. The Secretaries were variously shocked, disgusted, amused. They split, 5-to-5, on whether to make the information public. The President thereupon cast his own deciding vote, told them he had made up his mind: he would tell the people. Later in the day newspapermen were called in and given a bulletin...
...when he adopted a "Magna Charta" drafted by a faculty committee (TIME, June 5). But their hopes were quickly dashed, for at term's end the University fired ten popular assistant professors, including Ernest Simmons, President of Harvard's Teachers Union, and Critic Theodore Spencer. (Professor Spencer thereupon landed a lifetime appointment at Cambridge University, was hired back by Harvard as visiting lecturer for a year...
...have to get mighty drunk to do what I'm going to do this afternoon." Three saloons later, Mr. Heidelberg confided to an L. S. U. sophomore that he was mighty worried about complaints against him that had been made to Acting President Paul M. Hebert. Thereupon George Heidelberg rode home to his house in Baton Rouge, sent the cabbie to the kitchen to brew him a pot of strong coffee, and pumped a bullet through his head...