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Finer feels that he has returned to academic life for good, and plans to fulfill a lifetime ambition in the near future by writing a 1944 version of James Bryce's "The American Commonwealth...
Economist-Senator Myrdal was chosen by Carnegie's trustees to make this major American study because he was 1) an able scholar, 2) not an American, and thus could look at Negroes with an "entirely fresh mind." Perhaps not since de Tocqueville and Bryce has the U.S. had such an analytical probing by a sharp-eyed foreigner. Sifting a mountain of documentation through a trained academic mind, Dr. Myrdal drew conclusions that will make U.S. citizens either nod or squirm...
After the Storm. Warming up to his theory, Dr. Petersen quotes A. J. Beveridge to point out that Charles Darwin was born the same day as Lincoln, that Victor Hugo, Cavour, Disraeli, Dickens, Bryce, Thackeray and Bismarck were all born at about the same time. To support his idea that unsettled weather has something to do with it, he notes that a crest of great sun spot activity in 1778 was followed within a few years by a historic high point in mankind's production of geniuses, that the Golden Age of Greece coincided with an alltime high...
Philip Warren Anderson (Physics), Harold Clarence Passer (Economics), Carl Bryce Seligman (Electronic Physics...
...small margin of the Crimson triumph can be attributed largely to the superior coxing of Ducey, holding his sprint until the right time, and the superior bladework of the eight, paced by Bryce Seligman at stroke. There was not terribly much to choose between the power of the respective crews...