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...sounds and signs of fighting in the Artois trap died, observers knew that it was not because all the Allies had left with the last boats. Rather it was like the closing of a whirlpool over the unrescued heads of a vast shipwreck's bravest stay-behinds. Smothered under the converging German flood were the last brave thousands who died or were taken prisoner, and mountains of precious materiel. This week War Secretary Anthony Eden, speaking for the British alone, said that 80% were saved of the original B. E. F., which is now put at a low total...
...From the whirlpool of distribution arise occasional cries for a more "practical" education. That liberal education is a myth is the understandable viewpoint of students who have nibbled from all and everything and gained little more than a few points of credit. But when a professor of education propounds this view, it is a sad sign of defeatism--a sign that educators recognize their failure without mustering the courage to combat it. Few would disagree with Professor Brewer's contention that Harvard's liberal education is an adulterated concoction; but this is no reason why Harvard should turn resignedly...
...attachment to the Kremlin, the facts assembled are impressive, and serve to show that American idealism, and American big business are following conflicting paths. If the YCL can soft-pedal Finnish "aggression," there may be some hope left for unity in the job of pulling America out of the whirlpool...
daybreak, and bitter cold, the huge station's black and sooty iron arch gigantically sprawls over people. Mobs, like a water whirlpool, center sullenly turning, edges flicking, breaking, everywhere soldiers, soldiers, soldiers. Clots of people about them, wives, children, relatives, friends...
...their headmasters accept the new plan of provisional college admittance at the end of the Junior year, a lot of school boys will not have all the efforts of their senior year sucked towards the whirlpool of College Boards. Dean Gummere has long considered changes in Harvard's requirements. Too little opportunity has been granted the applicant to prepare for college, not merely for exams, and the introduction of the new Plan C would allow him to concentrate profitably on more advanced subjects and fields new to him as sociology and economics...