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...subject is a large one and has long demanded a candid and thorough-going treatment for the use of scholars. "Fifty Years of Party Warfare" is indubitably a notable contribution to the field of American History in combining all the varied movements of the era into a single compact volume. Mr. Lynch has displayed sound scholarship in his power to analize and synthesize his material into a consecutive and highly readable presentation...
...Paris. He said on his return from the Bolshevik-Polish front: "Bolshevism is an atrocious system. Its tyranny is ten times worse than that of the Tsar. I hear now that certain persons are wishing to conclude [French recognition of Russia] . . . It is a shameful thing to make a compact with crime...
...favorite question on Shakespeare examinations is ''Distinguish between horror and terror." Sanctuary is compact of both. The horrors of any ghost story pale beside the ghastly realism of this chronicle...
...hand in the East, no man should feel more intimately connected herewith than Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan philanthropist. To help Harvard and his own Yale escape the contemporary trend towards standardized mass education, he has given them more than $20,000,000 to divide their undergraduate colleges into compact, wieldy "houses." Last week it was announced that the Harkness "house plan" would also be made available to one of the biggest U. S. preparatory schools. Mr. Harkness gave $7,000,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy...
...Colorado River Compact which apportions water among the seven States is "grossly inequitable, unjust and unfair" to Arizona which never ratified it. Its effect would be to leave 2,000,000 Arizona acres "forever unirrigated, uncultivated, uninhabited, unused...