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...educated Englishman of 1853 and of 1928 on the Harvard of each year have a certain piquance of their own, as they spring from the minds of Emerich Edward Dalberg, Baron Acton, who visited the University in the year of the great New York Exhibition, and John A. Benn, young Englishman who studied a year at Princeton before writing his study of the American college curriculum, "Columbus Undergraduate...
...English literature better served in any British university than it is at Harvard?" This is the question that Mr. Benn asks and himself answers, in the negative. Although to a handful of Stevensons and a score of Bertrand Russells Americans may seem no more than parts of an unnatural existence that works like a Ford factory, and although the majority of previous visitors have agreed that the American college is guilty of complicity in this great stifling plot, Mr. Benn denies that the training at Harvard either hammers out a conventional type or ignores the necessities of existence...
Aside from the happy freshness of such a belief, there is savor in comparison of Mr. Benn's convictions with those of Baron Acton, who, according to the current Commonweal, seventy-five years ago wrote in his diary of the Harvard curriculum...
...Berlin, last week, Dr. Gottfried Benn, onetime Chief Surgeon for the German Army in the Brussels area, declared that he had been an eyewitness of the execution of Miss Cavell and had signed the certificate attesting her death. According to Dr. Benn, Nurse Cavell was blindfolded and tied by her hands to a stake. Thereafter she remained standing until "hit and instantly killed by 12 bullets...
...Love," London (1921), Martin Secker; "The Lost Girl," London (1920), Martin Secker; "Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious," New York (1921), Thomas Seltzer; "Sea and Sardinia," New York (1921), Thomas Seltzer; "Aaron's Rod," New York (1922), Thomas Seltzer; "Fantasia and the Unconscious," New York (1922) Thomas Seltzer; "Glad Ghosts," Ernest Benn (1926); "Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine," Centaur-Press (1925); "The Plumed Serpent," London (1926), Martin Secker; "St. Maur, together with the Princess," London (1925), Martin Secker...