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...fifty, while probably not apathetic toward it, had never seriously considered its study or appreciation. Here were unsullied potentialities--a promising group of embryonic music lovers. And then came the devitalizing attack of uninspiring fact. For four and a half months this once fertile group was subjected to a welter of dates, lives, names of compositions, and high-falutin musical terms...
...Chicago's Century of Progress a young chemical engineer who teaches at Yale went about inspecting the welter of exhibits purporting to show what Science had done for Mankind. What he saw did not impress Engineer Clifford Cook Furnas. The festoons of electric lights, he knew, burned with an efficiency of less than 2%. The television was blurry. The loudspeakers were squawky. There were sleek, fast automobiles which converted less than a tenth of their fuel into motive power. Display after display recounted the triumphs of medicine while a preventable outbreak of amebic dysentery in Chicago sickened 721 people...
...welter of confusing characteristics, Dr. Freeman has selected three which are outstanding among Dartmouth's virtues: A faculty fundamentally interested in teaching; the morale of the student body and the loyalty of the alumni; and a library which brings the students into personal contact with books...
This seeming welter of sacrifice an sterling nobility may nor make good tale telling but it does make a good movie. The performances of Miss Oberon. Mr. March and Mr. Marshall are uniformly excellent and the film is admirably photographed and embellished by an appropriate and pleasing musical accompaniment. Good for a mellow mead...
...there is a grievous fallacy in the charge that the removal of prejudices entails loss of ideals; and if, from the welter of advice the unfortunate Freshman must hearken to in his first few weeks, he can remember one small but significant idea, and retain it throughout his college career, he will have done well. No amount of teaching, no imposing array of facts, should lead a man to alter his fundamental outlook on life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light...