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...third leave began this term, when Henry D. Aiken, associate professor of Philosophy, began a year as visiting professor at the University of Michigan. He will be back for the spring term next year...
...spiritual power of the Pope." Irishmen, both Protestant and Catholic, were irked by the controversy (said a Protestant vicar: "Let these Americans squabble at home"). Some representatives in the Dail, Ireland's parliament, asked the government to take action against Blanshard. But Minister for External Affairs Frank Aiken, a better democrat than they, retorted: "It is not worth noticing...
Died. David Aiken Reed, 72, onetime (1922-34) Old Guard Senator from Pennsylvania and an early Republican casualty of the New Deal; of a heart attack; in Sarasota, Fla. Polished, lofty Princetonian Reed was a spokesman in Congress for Pennsylvania big business, deplored the New Deal and all its works, including its articulate solicitude for the "common man" (he once referred to his own constituents as "a lot of dunderheads...
...actually, that charge is as groundless as the others. "The Stones of the House" is a novel. In this novel, the author has created a fictional world, in which he has placed a college. The central character in this fictional world is Andrew Aiken, president of the college. Andrew Aiken, as the author portrays him, appears to hold some strong opinions about students and about the college newspaper. But to ascribe these opinions to Theodore Morrison is to confuse the fictional character and his world with the character and the world of the artist who created them--a fairly serious...
...reviewer felt these opinions belonged to Mr. Morrison rather than to Andrew Aiken, because they were inconsistent with Aiken's other thoughts and actions. As he has already mentioned in the review, he considers Mr. Morrison's sketches of mature people understanding and quite perceptive. Andrew Aiken, in his dealings with the members of the faculty, is consistently a sensitive man, one who sees many sides of his colleagues' personalities. Mr. Morrison, it is true, seldom puts Aiken in direct personal contact with a single undergraduate. The reviewer has no idea what the outcome would have been in such...