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What makes the plan utopian is in truth nothing more than that it is a plan. It would substitute for the haphazard standard of Harvard's instruction methods, allowed to exist by accident or whim or unfortified tradition, a policy. The policy would be a standard to which no course would have to conform but which would be there as a guide, a stimulus away from haphazardness and toward an ideal...
With a thousand-odd Freshmen to juggle into sections, the English Department cannot cater to every man's pet whim. Prior preparation of the Veteran's Book list further limits the possible materials and the section man, having already planned his course, cannot effectively arbitrate at the last minute. But neither can a student effectively work in a field foreign to his bent, to which he is arbitrarily assigned. His literary acquaintance may be broadened but not his interests; and with no participation in the selection, his education suffers...
...Arts loudly disapproved the scheme, declaring that it would "permanently change the appearance of the south façade."* Pennsylvania's Congressman-Architect Frederick Muhlenberg rose to declare that the White House "was a heritage of the American people, not lightly or casually to be altered at the whim of any tenant." Indignant letters poured in to the Washington papers; cartoonists lampooned the plan. Crumped the New York Herald Tribune: " 'Back-porch Harry' is scarcely an appellation that a man would like to carry into a presidential campaign, even if he were impervious to the odium...
...another Dalton tax measure, allowing only half the money spent on advertising to be deducted as business expenses in computing income tax, the Wall Street Journal pungently commented: "The hate of the Marxians ... for advertising is no mere whim. If you believe that the purpose of making and selling things is to furnish people what they choose to have, advertising appears useful. . . . But if you believe that the mass of consumers are subhuman, bound to do something foolish and destructive if left to themselves . . . advertising is a terrible thing. It is likely to cause people to want something and [that...
Holy Cross, October 18--WHDR; WACE; WHOB; WKNB, New Britain. Connecticut; WHIM, Providence; WRRK, Pittsfield: WAAR, Worcester...