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...Godkin Lectures are named after 19th century newspaperman Edwin L. Godkin, founder and publisher of The Nation. In 1903, the year after Godkin's death, the first of the Godkin Lectures was delivered by Lord James Bryce, England's ambassador to the United States, noted for his critical opinion of the quality of American presidents...
...Oxford dons, the Clarendon Press skims off the cream of the scholarly crop. The U.S. press is almost entirely autonomous, and the other branches may also publish on their own. But taken all together, the Oxford University Press covers just about everything except new novels. It has published Lord Bryce's Studies of History and Jurisprudence, Stubbs's Constitutional History of England, Sanskrit and Gothic grammars and the first English translation of Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes. Its famed dictionary (414,825 words) is the scholar's final arbiter on English words, and its books of verse...
...found time to visit his grandchildren, dodging the model planes which air-minded David, 5, sent zooming around the room; admiring the doodles which filled the drawing books of Barbara Anne, 4, and delighting in the baby tricks of Susan, 21 months. Last week the President also: ¶ Named Bryce Harlow, 37, former Oklahoma City textbook publisher, as chief presidential speechwriter in place of Emmet J. Hughes, who resigned to return to the editorial staff of LIFE. ¶ Revived the Point Four Program's policy steering committee, inactive since last November, by appointing seven new members and continuing...
...early 1870's, James Bryce visited Harvard and described it as "no real university, but only a struggling college with uncertain relations to learning and research." Today, Bryce would eat his words, for 80 years has performed a miraculous--change, transforming the small provincial college of 1873 into a great university, offering opportunity for study in almost every conceivable field...
...History and Government of the People, published by Harpers in 1923, caused much comment, both in, England and the United States. The English journal, the Spectator, wrote at the time of the book's publication; "Mr. Brogan has made a purely political study covering nearly the same ground as Bryce's American Commonwealth, and in this challenging comparison with that classic work, the praises he carns in his task is that his volume is not unworthy of its predecessor..." They Yale Review of winter, 1933, believed that "no writer on our party system has given a more brillintly written...