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...third point was that only in endowed colleges was the nation as a whole so well represented both geographically and socially, and that contacts thus made develop "citizens with a truly American viewpoint." In this connection he repeated the statement made at Cleveland on Monday night that in order to provide opportunities for all classes, scholarships must be offered large enough to cover the student's total expenditures...
...minds of most U. S. readers, England's Oxford Poets-W. H. Auden, C. Day Lewis, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, Michael Roberts, Christopher Isherwood, Rex Warner - are lumped together not only because they are contemporaries, but for: 1) their viewpoint (a sort of oblique communism), and 2) their literary method. Recently, however, the Oxford Poets have shown signs of setting up separate literary establishments; their differences are developing faster than their similarities. If this tendency continues at the present rate, it is not inconceivable that in another decade their similarities will be no closer than those of Harvard...
...real "truths-papers" of America--such as the Sunday "News of the Week" section of The New York Times, such as The Christian Science Monitor, such as The New Republic and The Nation--written not scientifically or objectively, not disjointedly or dispassionately, but rather integrating events into a viewpoint of a whole life. --The Dartmouth...
Birthday. Carter Glass, senior Democratic Senator from Virginia; his 80th; in Washington, day after Congress reconvened. Said he of the President's speech (see p 11): "It was a very agreeable and engaging sort of a message, from his viewpoint...
McNamee calls the attack vicious. Few with an objective viewpoint can call his running description less than vicious. It is a definite incitement to war. Preceded by a resounding ballyhoo of advance publicity the pictures seem definitely keyed to a war hawkian pitch. Few will deny the American people the right to see the pictures, but it is hardly too much to ask that the producers do not attempt to stir up a war fever in an effort to sell their pictures...