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Student Placement then, as a comparatively infant organization, is only just beginning to learn of its potentialities and its limitations. Its ultimate Utopia is to serve as a kind of finish to the Harvard educative process, in that every graduating student will come to its doors in search of advice and information. There can be no doubt that its function is an important and a much-needed one, but until it undergoes some kind of expansion it can never really achieve its capabilities. Two administrator-counsellors, four secretaries, and a little building on Dunster Street will not support Student Placement...
...this financial Utopia is ever attained, Harvard will have, in large part, the spirit and generosity of W. Palmer Dixon to thank...
When is a Communist not a Communist? Are there Communists in various degrees like good, better, best? Or bad, worse, worst? Or from mild to fanatic? I wonder if Gomulka is less a Communist for having divorced the parent country, or has he perhaps discovered a secret Utopia that compels him to remain essentially a Communist? It is very strange...
...Group Mind. What should education be for? The reconstructionist's answer: education must try to create a new social order that is as close to Utopia as possible. The reconstructionist rejects all absolutes, thinks that there is no metaphysical design to the universe and that "history has no ingrained purpose, no preordained goal." All he wants to do is to build a future in which "man may be happier, more rational, more humane than he has ever been...
...soon languishes. Hard though the show tries to be cheerful, philosophy is always breaking in, and no sooner does philosophy take its ease than show business bangs loudly on the door. For all Shirley Yamaguchi's sweet reedy singing, and the libretto's thoughtful and pretty words, Utopia seems freshened up by a touch of vulgar Broadway speed or a bit of Harold Langri-la. Lang and Joan