Word: detachedness
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PROFESSOR - Stanley Johnson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). At Vanderbilt University, they well recall young Instructor Johnson. He has turned novelist since he left the English Faculty, but still lives in Nashville, Tenn. Reading his gentle arraignment of professorial hypocrisy, they will scowl, or be enthusiastic, self-consciously. The decline and fall...
"The alumni are one of the most important elements of the University. A graduate on leaving Harvard is not detached from it. Throughout his life he is part and parcel of Harvard University. As such he owes allegiance to the University, and he owes it to the University, as well...
*In 1903, James Couzens, 31, Canadian by birth, was receiving $1,800 a year, working in a coal yard in Detroit. His employer, A. Y. Malcolmson, took some stock in the company Henry Ford was organizing in exchange for guaranteeing the Ford Company's credit up to $7,000...
"Modern Trade Unionism" is a subject of particular interest to every student of labor conditions. Though undergraduates have frequently heard the subject discussed in a detached, impersonal manner by instructors in the economic courses, it is seldom that they have the opportunity to hear it treated by one who is...
The author of The Crock of Gold and In the Land of Youth is thoroughly at home in New York City. He would be at home anywhere, in a curious, amused, detached sort of way. They tell of Irish charm. One sees it in varying quantities. James Stephens has more...