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Goleta, Calif.
Anti-League League
Sir:
Re your story on the Anti-Defamation League [Feb. 81: from what I can gather from this article, we shall soon become a nation of faceless, nameless people with no pride in whoever our ancestors may be or no pride in our religion whatever it may be.
Soon we will only wish to be identified with a group when we have done something good, but when something wrong is done by one of our group, we will deny that there is anything such as different religions and colors.
We will soon have to organize a league to defend us from leagues.
DORIS ANN GRESSETT
San Pedro, Calif.
It Takes Guts
Sir:
I am grateful to have been included in the distinguished company of teachers you have labeled "gut" professors [Feb. 22]. It is an honor of which, if I have not been worthy in the past, I shall try to be worthy in the future.
Your insult to my students, however, is a deeply shameful act. I have never had students so eager to learn, so open to new ideas and feelings, so committed to the jostle and delight of real learning; they are a joy to teach. Many stay in school by means of considerable sacrifices. Their hunger for education has already been subverted by the selfishness of their state's legislature and their university's administration. You, however, could gain little from attacking them. If you cannot respect an eagerness for learning, you might at least restrain your desire to injure it.
W. D. SNODGRASS
English Department
Wayne State University
Sir:
Your pointed remarks about the "gut" courses surviving in American universities evoked feelings of nostalgic guilt, but the fact that these courses are now the exception seems to indicate that students have advanced more rapidly than curriculums, and more readily recognize these not altogether disagreeable "guts" for what they are. Further, being able to sit back and just absorb without fear of forgetting is a refreshing change from the more skull-thumping sessions, and can be remarkably conducive to learning. The most "Mickey Mouse" course I took at Stanford was also one of the most informative and enlightening, and in respect to the kindly prof who gave me an undeserved A, I'll be damned if I'll tell you the name of it.
ROBERT L. MOTT
Washington, D.C.
Rosebud is a Rosebud is a Rosebud
Sir:
I am a student from Rosebud, Texas, and attend Texas A. & M. College.
Last fall, you took occasion to downgrade my school. In the Feb. 15 issue of TIME, you saw fit to cut down my home town.
I suppose I should feel fortunate that you do not know the name of my girl friend.
HENRY C. SKUPIN
College Station, Texas
Report Card
Sir:
The article about Taft [Feb. 15] is a splendid one. It is very gratifying that your editors regarded the announcement of our new headmaster as being worthy of this much attention. That the school was presented in such a favorable light is also very gratifying. Although I am, of course, prejudiced, I believe that the article was a very fair one.
I liked the gas-station ending!
PAUL CRUIKSHANK
Headmaster
Taft School
Watertown, Conn.
Call Us Christians
Sir: