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...should not have dismissed the subject of formal wear as worthless so quickly. For it is a rare man indeed who is not pressured occasionally into attending a dance or some other affair requiring dress more formal than a dark suit. Also, most of you will marry--later or sooner (because of the draft). And it is best to be prepared...
...many poorly trained teachers; that local school boards regularly flaunt minimum state standards in hiring teachers; that teachers are assigned to subjects which they have studied insufficiently or not at all; and that teachers are required to take courses in "methods" or "foundations of education" which are often worthless...
...most worthless article in the 16-page magazine is not either of these, however, nor yet Danny Boggs' analysis of the Conservative revival at last August's NSA Convention. Boggs came to the conclusion that, although conservative ideas, well-presented, did have reasonable chance of passage, simply saying "This is Conservative" was not sufficient to get a measure passed. It is a rare critique of the NSA which claims that...
...most worthless article, not even excepting the appeal for members by the Harvard Conservative Club, which publishes the sheet, is one entitled "Liberal Education and the Individual" by a Sharrel Keyes of Randolph Macon Woman's College. It is possible to determine that Miss Keyes rejects vocationalism, but otherwise it is a little hard to determine what sort of education she is talking about. She emphasized the importance of "spelling, mathematics, geography, and grammar," and then states the educated man "would find that mathematics and philosophy are not such strange bed-fellows and that Buddha's teachings can have meaning...
...high plane; he would like, for instance, to have seen the overthrow of parity discussed at Cambridge High Tables. His example is unfortunate. Parity is a most sophisticated concept, and full understanding of it requires considerable grounding in physics and mathematics. As Yudkin points out, such training would be worthless for the average non-scientist, and for many scientists working outside the field of atomic physics...