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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Author? Phi Beta Kappa coal-miner, society reporter (New York Herald), Genealogist James Branch Cabell has written some 18 volumes about the inhabitants of Poictesme. fairyland of his heart's desire, drawn in such mind's-eye detail that he has made maps of it. Born in Richmond, Va., in 1879 ne still does most of his writing there. The biographer of Manuel does not concern himself with ordinary life or contemporary affairs, feels that "Art is a criticism of life only in the sense that prison breaking is a criticism of the penitentiary." Mildly claustropho-biac. his desk faces...
...railmen had been sentenced to death before a firing squad for "gross criminal negligence" in causing a wreck.* Wives, kinsfolk and 1,000 curious Muscovites crowded the smoky room. Fierce, Trotskyish Chief Prosecutor Reuben Katanyan pointed a long, lean finger at the dazed defendants, described the wreck in lurid detail. "The passenger coaches were crushed like matches!'' he cried. "Forty of the dead will never be identified. They were cut into bits!" Nevertheless, Prosecutor Katanyan asked no severer penalties than ten years' imprisonment. In the midst of the trial the wife of one of the engineers arose...
Doubtless considerations of space prevented your article of today from commenting in more detail upon Professor Spalding's career as an educator. If Harvard owes the foundation of the Division of Music to Professor Paine, its remarkable growth is due entirely to the insight and policies of Professor Spalding. He realized the extent to which "musical appreciation" might enter the lives of the general student, and his lead in this respect has been followed all over the country. He was among the first to recognize Professor Davison's capacity for interesting the undergraduate in choral music, with results which...
...what may be a tile in his hands, while over his shoulder appears a cutting hammer, the stock implement of the mediaeval mason. The connection of this scene to the others is rather obscure, but it must be remembered that no elaborate designs or plans were drawn for the detail of the mediaeval building: each sculpture was given free scope...
Elsewhere in these columns apears an article by the Under Secretary of State which peels much of the gold leaf from governmental careers. Service to the United States seems much like labor in any business, full of detail, clerical precision, and hard work. There is little in his report which would inspire the lofty sentiment of Stephen Decatur in the undergraduates breast...