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Memorable was the furor year ago when Lady Hewart suddenly collapsed and died at a glittering reception given for the retiring Lord Mayor of London (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933) Widower Lord Chief Justice Hewart began his career as a reporter on London's Evening Star. Bachelor Lord High Chancellor Sankey is devoted to his sister with whom he goes on long walks and tramp ship cruises. Husband Lord Justice Slesser used to spell his name Schloesser, began life as an engineer, now hobnobs as a leading Fabian with George Bernard Shaw and has published volumes of Collected Verses...
...knowledge of Latin as the sole distinction between the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Science degrees is no longer applicable or even sensible in a modern university. For the average man science includes such subjects as Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, and a Bachelor of Science degree should be awarded on the basis of four years study of those subjects...
...Bachelor of Science degree should be restored to an equal rank with the Bachelor of Arts. A concrete and useful distinction should be made on the basis of laboratory study, and nothing else. There is no reason why Harvard should not lead the way in abolishing the old concept and adopting the new and logical one. Harvard can set up a plan which will have some foundation in reason and will not be regarded as one of the most cumbersome of anachronistic heritages...
...true that many disadvantages arise from this masterstroke. The bachelor of science in history and literature is condemned to go through life accompanied by the jeers of the ignorant populace, who mistake him for some synthetic monster. Cries of "scientist" greet the Classicless music student as he sits at his piano. Nevertheless, the cause of efficiency is served. Harvard marches on, leading the world...
Schooled in Scotland and Germany, Buchanan Lang held pulpits in Aberdeenshire and Dundee, served as chaplain during the War, is now minister of Whittingehame Parish Church. Father of four, he resembles his bachelor brother Cosmo Cantuar in being sparse of hair, strong of feature...