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...Booth Had Missed? Playwright Arthur Goodman has chosen to imagine that a Negro porter knocked up John Wilkes Booth's arm just as he entered the Ford's Theatre box to shoot Abraham Lincoln.? Thereafter Honest Abe is beset by venomous political intrigue, chief movers in which are club-footed Thaddeus Stevens, treacherous Secretary of War Stanton and complacently egotistical Ulysses Simpson Grant...
Bidding on the Tikytt psalter began at $20,000 and rose rapidly to $61,000, for which it was bought by plump little Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach of Philadelphia, who usually manages to skim off the cream, of most U. S. book auctions...
...flock of goats and sheep and live on their milk and cheese, and clothe yourself from their fleece. . . . Get back to Abraham . . . when subways and elevated railroads and skyscrapers were not dreamed...
...criticism from opponents of the pragmatic curriculum (courses in foremanship, machine design, journalism, et al.) which Columbia has widely publicized. The theory upon which New College is based-that education is practical training for useful pursuits-was violently anathematized a year ago, and again last month, by Dr. Abraham Flexner (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930; Dec. 14). From another educator last week came similar but more polite strictures in The Theory of Education in the U. S., by Albert Jay Nock (Harcourt, Brace: $2). But Dr. Nock, unlike Dr. Flexner, is a cordial admirer of President Butler, a graduate...
...Abraham Flexner in his challenging book on "University American, English and German" says that "colleges do not know what they wish: "Do they wish brains? Do they wish "industry? Do they wish scholarship? "Do they wish character, or do they "wish 'qualities that fit for leadership'? They swing blindly and helplessly from one to another." But if he reads the report of President Aydelotte covering ten years at Swarthmore College, he will find at least one American college that knows what it wishes to do. The answer is very like the one which President Lowell has made for the American...