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SIMONETTA PERKINS?L. P. Hartley?Putnam ($2). Demonstrating what might conceivably befall a high-caste Boston nymph when exposed to the languorous breath of Venice. Lavinia Johnstone, preserved by her friends as the symbol of their bloodless conventionality, undergoes strange fevers in the presence of a champion gondolier, calls herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Extravaganza | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

The Half Caste is one of those seethingly tropical things which sound suspiciously as if the author had never been nearer Pago-Pago than a ukelele store. It tells of a fine young U.S. yachtsman who falls in love with one of the island damsels. Later she turns out to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays: Apr. 12, 1926 | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

New System Lessens Caste Feeling

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Fritz Kellermann Contrasts German and American Methods of Scholarship-Believes Teutonic Standards to be the Higher | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

"What are the advantages of the new school systems over the old in Germany? The new system diminishes the caste feeling, fosters community spirit, unifies and clarifies the system of grade, vocational, and high schools, and develops a free personality. It also leads the student through one definite significant sphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Fritz Kellermann Contrasts German and American Methods of Scholarship-Believes Teutonic Standards to be the Higher | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

Of ritual: "The champion church of the South [for the number of baptisms] ducked 400 [the past five years] . . . So many darkies have become Baptists of late that the other evangelical denominations are growing alarmed. The Baptists' dogmas and ceremonies appeal powerfully to the African mind, as they do to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptist Baiter | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

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