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There is no great bulk of required reading in the course; the standard compendium of facts gathered by Hazen is reluctantly suggested for a more nearly satisfactory narrative. But usually four or five volumes in the diverse fields of political, social and intellectual history as well as biographies, memoirs and sources are required. The lack of compulsion very often stimulates individual searching out of material in whatever subjects the student is particularly interested, e.g. the rise of Socialism, the evolution of Nationalism...
...laboratory without labor is of all the creations of man the most weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable. The subject matter purports to deal with man and his habitat, but it soon develops into nothing more than a series of bald platitudes, reached by devious roads of deduction, a compendium of the laborious undeniable. The vocabulary is meretricious; the reading matter is not to be borne. All this is, of course, that outgrowth of the fact that economic geography is a science in the same sense that government is a science...
...Kingdom of God and hums her lines so as to sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard Boleslavsky, imported from the Moscow Art Theatre, saw to it that the production had surface authenticity, managed sometimes to make it seem more than what it probably is-a resourceful compendium of dignified and exciting hokum. Good shot: Rasputin ordering the Tsarevitch to look through a microscope at a fight between a fly and an ant, then pushing the Tsarevitch away so that he can see it himself...
...This Davison report was considered a classic compendium of unfortunate events. Other write-offs included: "Uncollectable receivables- $1,556,842. Provision for loss on accounts due from former officer of subsidiary company (including charges of $138,310 resulting from litigation)-$303,557. Provision for loss in realization of advances to The Silica Gel Corp.- $1,916,800. Loss on sale of stock held under officials' and employes' stock purchase plan-$322,222." Six contingent liabilities, including three lawsuits, were also listed...
Supplementing these two sections is a veritable compendium of historical and critical commentaries of Utopian literature, forming an introduction to the niceties of the collection. Professor Peabody has been emeritus for almost twenty years...