Word: books
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After four years of hit-and-run contact, the sum total that most undergraduates know about Widener is that they must climb sixty-nine steps, pass by the controversial Sargent murals, and wait twenty minutes before they can get a book. Beyond this shallow depth of bibliophilistic comprehension they have seldom waded. The time is long overdue when students should realize what the library does for Harvard education, and what, ultimately, it might do to enhance that education...
PROFESSOR TINDALL, in this witty and searching book on the outstanding primitivist of our time, has been concerned with two fundamental points: Lawrence viewed as in the stream of post-Victorian intellectual revolt against Christianity, evolution and scientists in general; and secondly, Lawrence taken as a symbol of the frustrated romanticism which Professor Tindall finds to be the true essence of our age. He accompanies Lawrence on his spiritual peregrinations into the wilds of theosophy, and for the first time offers a complete investigation of the novelist's reading...
...Governor Earle of Pennsylvania, he has just written a book on his European experiences during the past Summer...
...Earle's book, "Blackout", will be published early in November by J. B. Lippincott Company. It reports his experiences in London during the pre-war flurry, in provincial France during the "war of nerves" and his observations in Germany at the peak of tension...
Forty Freshmen turned out last night for a preliminary meeting of Phillips Brooks House Freshman Committee competition. The candidates were selected from the Red Book and Union Committee list...