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...crosses and his spooky Klonvocations. But, at least, in the encyclopaedias where uncolored statistics can cover a multitude of hokum, he and his several hundred thousand "brothers" will get Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern Ku Klux Klan in a cool, curt sketch...
...opening paragraph ran, ". . . Mr. Coolidge really ought to think twice about making such a speech as he made Tuesday evening. Another speech like this one, and first thing Mr. Coolidge knows he may have a suit for plagiarism on his hands, brought by the editors of the Encyclopaedia, Britannica." Democrat readers beamed, folded their papers back gleefully but Republicans were not much alarmed. Had this same lead appeared in the immaculate columns of the Times things would have been different; but everybody knew that the World's partisanship now and then ran away a bit with its common sense...
...would "rather have written Alice in Wonderland than the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...reports with his right. Between lectures on political science he cried out for laughing social philosophers, showing that, while Cardinal Newman had only asked for light, Charles Dickens had given it, and brazenly declaring that he would rather have written Alice's Adventures in Wonderland than the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...succeed the late Hugh Chisholm (TIME, Oct. 13, 1924, MILESTONES) as editor of the Encyclopedia Britannica, that compendium's directors last week-largely at the instance of Americans in their number-appointed James Louis Garvin, the man designated by the late Lord Northcliffe as "greatest living journalist." Since 1908, Journalist Garvin had edited the London Observer (Sunday), being retained by the present owner (Viscount Astor) after the death of Lord Northcliffe, the founder...