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...State politics entered into the Control of the university to an undesirable extent There are, of course, various weaknesses in our higher education...

...But it is part of the Antioch idea that almost any work is broadening in the experience that it gives...

...Since they are not at all tha friends of freedom or democracy, since they are, in fact, ap totalitarian as th* Fascists, th* part which they may be allowed to piny in tha future may be as fatal as the one which they played in the past...

...On the other hand, a profound immersion in genuinely great books of timeless cultural appeal, in .Goethe's Faust and Dante's Divine Comedy, in the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Plato, in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of tha Soman Empire, would be a useful antidote to the scrap-heap character of some modern education...

...But now there is an eager demand for their services...

...He takes a lively interest in the problems of the small rural communities which tend to repopulate the large cities...

...But they scan the future eagerly in the hope that aome combination of force* may bring about his fall...

...As I haven't studied St John's at first hand, I would hesitate to express an opinion as to how its method has worked out...

...Black Mountain, in North Carolina, ia a sort of proletarian college where the student* pitch hi snd do a good deal of Aa work areemd the campus...

...But there are far richer possibilities of experimentation and exploration in an educational arete an where there is OO such fromidably centralited authority...

...now boon gammed batettmy sjaalyeond by tag grm»n.»r buniasmt of learning the methods of modern combat A dam lite set ag |n**iiiit...

...th* students peacefully bat Irmly refused t* badge...

...Deep Springs, in California, 4s Ajsmior college, rather heavily endowed, whore promising boys from high schools and preparatory schools are picked out, regardless of money or social position, and given good academic training along with life and work on a Far Western ranch...

...There is merely a very evident desire on tha part of the Franco crowd to aaandetsa-the democratic world that there .has been one...

...This bit af direct action ended the jimcraw situation in that partirular theatre...

...There may be routine advantage* in such uniformity...

...If our government doe* anything to bolster Franco or neglects any measures which may weaken him, it Will be failing to represent the will if tha people...

...I WOULD certainly not want to suggest thst all is well with the American university and college world...

...New problems and handicaps have been substituted for and in some cases superimposed on old defect...

...The draining off into tha armed forces of almost all able bodied mature man sindents threatens to create a cultural lag that will be felt for years after the end of the war...

...There is the excessive concentration of interest on the "big* football game, altbeugh tab) has...

...The Big Throe at Yalta pledged the Unites Nationa to obliterate ail vestiges of Fascism in Italy and Germany...

...In the years of depression it was sometimes hard to place students...

...In Washington there are many who favor going along with Britain...

...U • was precisely this sort of situation which led to th* tragic outcome of the Spanish Civil War...

...Under these circumstances it is of the utmost importance that labor and liberal groups in thia country should organite in order to crystalixe and express the attitude of the majority of our citizens towsrd th* people of Spain and their struggle for liberty...

...They have suffered so much during recent yearn that they hesitate to Uke violent means to free themselves from the oppressor...

...The management famed...

...Not all jobs can be related so directly to courses of study...

...Perhaps hlghsr education comes so easily to so many that its opportunities are not always eagerly and quickly giasped But tha opportunities saw there and the diversity j* there...

...We have our state universities, which provide mora free education on the higher levew for more people than any university system in the world...

...alumni group, can create borderline case*) of academic freedom...

...spondonts and the naming of Manuel Asnor as th* sow minister to the United States ar* two straws in the wind Which point in th* same direction...

...Surely the great majority of tbe people of tha United States eympathiie with Spaniards in the** hopes...

...All authorities agree that the great majority of th* people of Spain have never favored Franco and that now, more than aver, they are againit him...

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...A group of Aatioch students went to the theatre with a similar number of atudent* from Wilber force a nearby Magi* college—and took peace*, a White student next to a Negro, all ever th* theatre...

...And there is a wide area of choice in the typea of training that are offered...

...tha future newspaperman or newspaperwoman will have become familiar with the smell of printer's ink and with the many processes that go into tba making of a newspaper...

...Not on fs/and The easing of Spanish censorship on foreign corn...

...A professional engineer, h« was head of th* TVA from 1983 to 1938...

...He was placed in power by Hitler and Mussolini, and be rewarded them with aid against tha democracies he despises...

...The local moving picture theatre maintained a system of jintcrow ssgrogation of white* and Negroes...

...Fraternities and sororities snatched for new students and created a thoroughly unhealthy social atmosphere...

...Despite the change hi the censorship rules announced by Foreign Minister Jose l.equeriea an April 16, the Spanish llamas tic press remains under rigid censorship...

...Tbe "Groat Books" experiment at St...

...Some of its students recently performed a little job for democracy in a neighboring town...

...All that the Spanish people ask is self-determination...

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...There has been no change...

...Pursuit af knowledge for ita awn aake hi Wot as genoral an Meal among American students as on* might wish...

...There is grave danger that he may succeed...

...The Fascist dictatorship of Franco is making clever and concerto* efforts -to survive by currying favor with the victorious allied countries...

...Th* defeat of hia Fsscist sad Nasi supporters seems to them to furnish the hoped* for occasion...

...Certainly the word-for-word reading of early scientific works seems a rather formidable waste of tima and mental energy...

...Very different from Antioch is Bryn Mawr, a woman's college in the Main Line suburban area of Philadelphia, which I recently visited...

...Students spend port of their time studying, part of the time working in job* closely integrated With their study...

...Tha engineering student will have had a taste of factory life...

...It takes pride in th* fact that it was one of the first American colleges to gat a labor man on its board of trustees...

...Whatever may be one's individual reaction to the St John's idea, it waa the kind of educational experiment that was worth making, if only to test out its strong points snd its weaknesses...

...but the student emerges with experience in one—perhaps In more than one—field of practical endeavor...

...A group of American sympathizers to be known ss the American Committee, for n Free Democratic Spain is now being set up...

...Its former president, Arthur E. Morgan, who still lives in the community, la a man of?VatiaVenpaettWa and interests...

...John's, with its authoritarian and .rigid intellectual implications, has come in for heavy criticism in the columns of The New Leader...

...II was Morgan's idea that, higher education had been too widely separated from everyday life...

...At the same time we have a multitude of smaller private colleges, good, bad and Indifferent Some of the more alert and distinctive of these are fulfilling a very useful social and educational function as informal laboratories for tbe tasting out of new ideas...

...Ajm •NTIOCH Is not th* only American collage that ia experimentihg with th* "study-and work" idea...

...Foreign eorrmn>ondents may still b* deported for any report which finds disfavor in Francos-eye...

...TaKE Antioch CoUege, located at Yellow Springs, Ohio, for instance...

...Th* great majority of th* 800,000 Loyalists who left Spsin as s result of Franco's triumph are organised under the Spanish Committee of Liberation...

...So Antioch put Into effect an interesting "study and work" program...

...Franco bet on the wrong horse...

...The whole spirit of Antioch is broadly democratic...

...It concentrates much more exclusively on straight intellectual training.* But, along with tbe better women's colleges that are scattered all ever the country, it gives its students S range of intellectual interests that would have been beyond tbe dreams of the pioneer workers for higher education for women...

...Many of these institution*.stand high in teaching and research achievement...

...The British Government favors a monarchy for Spain...

...More individuala, in proportion to population, get university or college education in th* United States than in any other country in tha world...

...Aa Editorial— Spam Is...

...The dic-' sat si sat Csknmanmm aa» aHowod tosnurp fa> tha minds of Spanish people the position of th* only friends of freedom...

...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN Under the Elms IT has beta said that a French Minister of Education, by looking: at a time schedule, could ascer-tain exactly what lesson waa being taught in every school in Franca...

...Thu lengthens the time of the college course...

...As for Senor Asnsr, ho has ; conspicuous talents which will make him an effective propagandist in this country, but his'record is ss long and black as that of any other Spanish reactionary...

...Are we now to destroy Fascism in them enemy countries and allow it to continue in SpainT The setting up of thla committee gives citizens of this country opportunity to asshtt in string tha right answer to this vital question...

...Only Americans who have been misinformed or whose view* are twisted by soma sectarian interest can fail to aupport them ia this aspiration One groat danger in the present situation flows from the fact that while th* British and American Governments ar* taking a sUnd-offish position or actually lending support to Spanish reactionaries of one sort or other, th* Russians are vociferously anti-Franco...

...During my trip I had an amusing and instructive talk with a professor in one of our leaa advanced universities who let every skeleton out of the academic closet Tha students, according to hia account wars engaged in a kind of perpetual class war with th* professor* in order to get the best possible marks for tha least amount of serious study...

...It seems to me that no educational laboratory experiment, whether of tbe Antioch or the St John's type, should be made compulsory and universal...

...There is perhaps no field where the saying that one man's meat is another man's poison holds so true as in higher education...

...New he is making desperate efforts to adapt himself to the new situation, to persuade Groat Britain and the United .States that he has always been on our aide...

...No one can make a tour of college campuses without being impressed by the diversity of the American higher educational scene...