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...Nation, left-wing weekly, had come out for U. S. rearmament, veteran Liberal Oswald Garrison Villard,* longtime (1918-33) editor & owner, since 1933 a weekly contributor, resigned. Wrote he in a valedictory article last week: ". . . America is to be safeguarded, not by guns and warships that may be rendered valueless overnight by new inventions and new tactics, but only by greater economic and industrial wisdom, by social justice, by making our democracy work." Said Nation Editor Freda Kirchwey: "It frightens me to read such articles. They represent, to my mind, a danger more present than Fascism...
Throughout the world the certainties of many past generations were no longer certain, the values of many generations valueless. In the Near East former masters were impotent, new masters sweeping nearer. India might soon be cut off from all contact with the mother country she has worried for so long. Japan looked southward toward almost defenseless prizes (see below). Much of Africa was about to change hands; much of the rest was being fought over (see p. 25). South America shook with totalitarian scares (see p. 32). The U. S. was far from safe...
...course reviews at the Union, Harvard has the means by which to help students organize their work. Yet many of the reviews in the past have been--in the words of students who attended them--"worse than useless." These valueless reviews may be classed as of two kinds: either the instructor has merely conducted a question box--in which one or two "bright boys" have invariably monopolized the floor; or he has attempted in three short quarters of an hour to "cover" a half-year's work. Such superficial treatment, often caused by the fact that instructors, like students...
...second ... die earlier than those of the first." Drs. Allen & Adson admitted that "there is no very good medical treatment for hypertension," that droves of patients run to "physician after physician seeking relief, and . . . large numbers of physicians do likewise. . . . Almost all products so enthusiastically advertised are valueless. A program of adequate rest and recreation, avoidance ... of nervous stresses and strains, the acquisition of a calm peaceful attitude, the use of sedatives, the maintenance of normal weight and the judicious use of drugs ... is as good as any." Hypertension is a disease of the arterial system. The heart pumps blood...
...other hand, we cannot subscribe to your purely destructive criticism which would accuse us of underhanded motives and pass off the entire poll as valueless. The purposes of the poll are two-fold: to sound out student opinion on Harvard's attitude toward war and peace; to determine what agreement there is on the HSU program. If there is disagreement on those points there is simply no danger of our making a pretense of unanimity. The charge of a sinister attempt to pass off our opinion as that of the majority is unfounded and is certainly not proved by your...