Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little yellow pamphlet, but Harvard men saw red. The Next President of Harvard: A Prediction, said the title. The author was that suspicious creature, a pseudonymity; in this case, "Dolopathos," meaning "Suffering Slave," or as more cheerful souls who had forgotten their Greek translated, "Bad News." The publishers were S. Baldwin & Co. of Cambridge, a non-luminous fact. "Abbott Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard," read the first sentence, "will be 70 years old on December 13 of this year." What axiom could be more harmless? "He has occupied his high office for 17 years, has accomplished many striking and notable...
Then, after a little snuffling among sham issues, three candidates to succeed Dr. Lowell were examined. First came large, gentle Dr. R. B. Merriman, "author of stately volumes on the Spanish Empire which few have read but all admire. Great Catholic-baiter. A man of means, whether his own or his wife's our sources do not inform us." But, questioned the scurrilous one, if Dr. Merriman were the Elisha of the University, why did Dr. Lowell delay resigning...
FLATLAND - A Square - Little, Brown ($1.50). Some 40 years ago, critics hurled brickbats and bouquets, hurled them hard, at this small book, whose pseudonymous author was then headmaster of the City of London School, the Rev. Edwin Abbott Abbott, M.A., D.D. Now the book is republished with a foreword by erudite William Garnett, in view of the detection of a fourth dimension by Dr. Einstein. It is a geometric romance for non-mathematicians; an extremely simple fable with amazing implications and a vein of social satire that remains ageless...
...Author. Dorothy Dix, of course, is not her name. Fifty-six years ago, in Montgomery County, Tenn., she was christened Elizabeth Meriwether. She knew love early; married one George O. Gilmer at the romantic age of 18. Misfortune smote her. Now she says in her philosophy of life: "/ am not afraid of poverty. ... I have earned my bread and butter for many years." At 26 she found herself editing the women's department of the New Orleans Picayune (now the Times-Picayune). Her printed words were bathed in the milk of human kindness; she dispensed the type of advice...
...Here are history, fiction, and destiny jumbled on a scale which D. W. Griffith would call a "spectacle." One Peter Ormerod, fresh from Harvard, a successful Manhattan lawyer, goes to California in 1855 in behalf of his client, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now Peter is often called "ugly" by his author, but he has steel in his biceps, adventure in his red corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes that "America must round her territories by the sea," that...