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...refused to collaborate in any postwar school plans which so much as recognized the "public" schools as part of the nation's educational system. Cried one Councilman: "We say the ["public"] system is socially unhealthy and . . . excludes the great majority of the population and is specifically designed to uphold the class system and transgresses against all the canons of democracy...
...musical institutions, the League of Composers celebrated its 20th birthday last week with a concert in Manhattan's Town Hall. No crowd clamored to buy standing room. But to many musicians it was an important event. For 20 years the league had been almost the only hand to uphold the frequently flickering torch of contemporary high-brow music...
What we need today is a united spiritual front, a unity of purpose and action. This will not be possible as long as we cannot wholeheartedly support and uphold Russia in our innermost convictions. Russia's continued appeals for a second front will be understood and unreservedly supported only if and when the Kremlin makes a definite effort to understand us (as we have been sincerely trying to understand them) and unites with us to guarantee the principles expressed in the Atlantic Charter...
Modification of the existing Summer School is the more conservative suggestion. Supporters argue that courses in the three term year must be staggered to allow for faculty vacations, and that incoming Freshmen would never have a complete course curriculum from which to choose. They uphold the adequacy of the present academic year, urging only the substitution of seven week semesters for six week ones...
Professor Hocking is expected to discuss the need for a spiritual as well as a military victory and to consider the role of philosophy as a basis for national morale. Professor Brinton will uphold the point of view that labor, management and government have still further specific sacrifices ahead which each must make before the war can finally be won, while Matters, representing the viewpoint of a person of military age who is not yet in the Army, will spend some time discussing what young people of high school age can do to help in the war effort...