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...than the Goebbels-Hitler method of explaining away all Germany's defeats and trials in terms of the Jew. True Germans were not defeated in the War, so runs the Nazi tale for grown-up children. They were betrayed by Jewish pacifists. Marx was a Jew! In the welter of German revolution the Jews fomented a German Republic essentially
...cynical observer recently described the holder of an honorary degree as a man who had bought well for his college. Surveying the welter of estimable mediocrities who are annually acclaimed at Commencement, it does not always appear that they have performed a better service. Actually, few academic traditions have been more causally corrupted than that by which the symbol of scholarship is bestowed on persons of exceptional distinction in intellectual life of public service. The unhappy fact is that many colleges which are so liberal with their sheepskins lack faculties capable of measuring achievement from the point of view...
...scarcely a surprise that this year's Commencement week should find its dominant note in the field of politics and economics. One would be led to suppose, however, that this week's welter of oratory might contain something constructive to grace the thinking which went into its composition. Any close examination of the two outstanding speeches, the Phi Beta Kappa Oration and the Class Oration, shows that such was not the case...
...average European unfolding his thin morning paper last week found the U. S. an exciting welter. What was going , on at those conferences in the White House? Was it the peasants of Idaho, Iowa or Ohio that were in armed revolt? What was the meaning of "controlled inflation?" Could the U. S. Government control it better than the French or Ger- man Governments had done? All these things occurring 4,000 mi. away were of vital interest to Europe. Near at hand there was one man who in two brief scenes made things much clearer: U. S. Ambassador-at-Large...
...general, the affidavit, regarded as a statement of policy, is little more than a welter of idealistic impracticalities. The students should do their work completely and critically; but many of them will never do so while they are assigned unwieldy tomos, which waste their time, and many of them will never do so in any case. The tutoring bureaus should stop helping the undergraduate down the path of intellectual disintegration; but the experience of Harvard and others has shown that they will not stop, and cannot be stopped...