Suggestions For Prof. Board

Knowledge.

"Look after your university colleges, but cease cramming students with useless knowledge. Students must understand Russia and Germany. They must have knowledge on the subjects they have to deal with. Karl Marx is more important than Adam Smith, and I would have all students examined on Trotsky's History of the Revolution and on the policy of Stalin. I would cease teaching them on the past era-something which is supposed to be knowledge but is not knowledge at all."

George Bernard Shaw.

"Nor was the solicitude of the government for the spiritual welfare of the student body limited to the requirement of monthly certificates of Confession and of secret reports from the Faculty concerning the private habits and tendencies of individual students; with almost an excess of paternal vigilance the Authorities required that the chins of the undergraduates should be examined for signs of any untoward growth. Beards were a symptom of incipient republicanism.

—The University of Genoa in Gwilym O. Griffith's "Mazzini."