Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author's purpose is best expressed in his own words: "to make us rejoice anew that we are citizens and dwellers in so great and so happy a land." Unfortunately, there are many things in our past and contemporary history which might mar this bit of idealism. But it is not expected that the author dwell on these events when addressing primarily the young and newly naturalized American. Although Professor Hart leaves one with the impression that our history is a resultant of popular forces mainly, the significance of personal leadership in our history is very strongly emphasized by frequent...
...History" has furnished us with the first true American Outline of History." Undoubtedly, the author has harkened to the eloquent appeal of James Harvey Robinson to "humanize" and "de-academize" knowledge for the benefit of the masses. Both of these objects have been accomplished largely through the medium of a careful selection of authenticated pictures and cartoons. The book is an example of the modern movement to teach general history by means of the visual appeal. It is an exceptionally valuable "pictorial review" of the story of our people. The illustrations occupy more than half the space and at first...
...Ramsay MacDonald, the Man of Tomorrow" is an interesting account of a man who has suddenly and dramatically been brought before the public eye. It is not a work of enduring value and probably was not intended as such. The author, who, under the name of Iconoclast, accepts at least the one idol of anonymous authorship of political sketches, is very diffuse and insists on presenting his own conceptions when the reader would prefer to be given the facts and allowed to draw his own conclusions...
...leader of the Labor Party MacDonald is placed in a peculiar position. His character, as the author points out in some of his best passages, is after all essentially conservative. He is fond of forms and precedents and traditions; in one of his latest public utterances--almost Gladstonian in tone--he has praised the Scotch Sabbath as compared with the Continental Sunday. It is no wonder that his wilder supporters from Glasgow--the irrepressible Jack Jones and others--should often chafe under the rein and that even his closest friends should bewail the fact that he so seldom chooses...
George Macaulay Trevelyan will speak in the Faculty Room of the Union at 8 o'clock tonight on "The Relation of History and Literature," it was announced by the History Club. He is a direct descendant of Lord Macaulay, and is the author of author of several well known histories...