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...such a plan of limitation in extensively adopted, it may bring about far-reaching changes in the theory and practice of American education. For example, it may widen the gap between private and public institutions of higher learning. The privately endowed colleges may become increasingly less representative of our heterogeneous national population, and may come in time to play the aristocratic role in American life which Oxford and Cambridge have so long filled in the life of England...
Although the plan of holding a contest for men's ideas is in itself a very commendable one, the solution of the alumni unemployment situation is a personal problem, peculiar in each individual case to the circumstances involved. The National Planning Committee could very well widen the scope of its competition beyond that of the graduate problem, to the implications of that question, the implications of that question, the world depression and all its ramifications. Students who are to be graduated within the next few years would undoubtedly take an interest in a world problem of this sort...
...removal of this restriction would be a considerable aid in the solution of the present library problem. Such an action would not only widen the selection of books an supplement the now curtailed facilities of the College Library, but also it would spare certain Houses the expense of purchasing duplicates of expensive sets owned by other Houses. Furthermore there would not be the danger presented by inter-house eating, overcrowding, since the libraries are comparatively equal in size and advantages...
...evolutionary futility of the gradually disappearing lungfish looks to the Anglican priest like a crack in the Divine Plan. Joel does his best to widen the crack by comparing Man's brain to Kamongo's lung, both ingenious developments, neither leading anywhere much. Joel likens life to whirlpools in a stream of energy, likens the living matter of cells and bodies to inorganic rubbish whirlpool-caught. The gyroscopic adjustment of the whirlpool to obstacles in its course gives an illusion of intelligent purpose to the rubbish it holds together. Really, all the purpose animating the rubbish is to spin...
...come into closer physical proximity, the spiritual common interests widen perceptibly. In the jostle and activity of our large cities, people lose some of their humaneness, and become calloused toward their fellow men. In the city men don't know or care about their next door neighbor, rural life alone develops human warmth of personality," Dr. Richard Thurnwarld, psychologist and sociologist of the University of Berlin, and visiting professor at Yale, declared in an interview yesterday...