[1.] Education in college: Training for statesmanship / George F. Kennan
Undergraduates on apron strings / Howard Mumford Jones
Yearning for security / Oscar Handlin
Educating women in a man's world / Lynn White, Jr.
Too much football / Allen Jackson
College athletics: education or show business? / Harold W. Stoke
[2.] Language and the arts: English as she's not taught / Jacques Barzun
Words lost, strayed, or stolen / Alice Hamilton
The ivory tower / E.M. Forster
The snobbishness of the learned / W.T. Stace
Out for stars: a meditation on Robert Frost / George F. Whicher
The comedy of Charlie Chaplin / Al Capp
The meaning of literary prizes / Edward Weeks
[3.] Personalities: Mahatma Gandhi / Bertrand Russell
Mark Twain / Gamaliel Bradford
The man who found Troy / C.W. Ceram
Brandeis / Judge Charles E. Wyzanski, Jr.
"Kitty" of Harvard / Rollo Walter Brown
[4.] A touch of humor: The common cold / Richard Gordon
Objections to laughter / Robert Lynd
Science has spoiled my supper / Philip Wylie
[5.] Social patterns and problems: Domestic superstitions / Ralph Barton Perry
Do American men like women? / David L. Cohn
Government in medicine / James Howard Means
Teen-age criminals / Judge Elijah Adlow
Utopia in Pennsylvania: the Amish / Albert Jay Nock
[6.] As the scientist sees it: Faith and the scientist / George R. Harrison
As we may think / Vannevar Bush
A design for fighting / Harlow Shapley
Challenge to complacency: what future archaeologists will think of us / Stanley Casson
[7.] Freedom of thought and expression: The indispensable opposition / Walter Lippmann
The encroachments on freedom / Zechariah Chafee, Jr.
How much academic freedom? / Howard Mumford Jones
The suppression of news / James S. Pope
The monopoly of news / Gerald W. Johnson
[8.] Values: A reasonable life in a mad world / Irwin Edman
Humanism and the belief in man / Archibald MacLeish
Can men live without war? / Vannevar Bush
Free enterprise is not a hunting license / Clarence B. Randall
God and success / Curtis Cate.