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Raking the brownshirts' vaunted "Totalitarian State" from stem to stern, von Papen flayed its muzzling of the Press, its meddling with religion, its encouragement of fanaticism and the drift toward radicalism of those Nazis who keep shouting for a Second Revolution. "Did we experience an anti-Marxist revolution," he barked, "only to carry out the program of Marxism...
Princeton's Harold Willis Dodds: It is easy to be tolerant when things are going well and when the ideas which one favors are in the ascendancy. But when the drift sets against one's cherished opinions or one's class interest, intolerances in various seductive guises may take possession of even the most gentle-natured spirits...
Died. Frederick Delius, 71, blind English composer (Appalachia, A Mass of Life, Sea-Drift, Brigg Fair) ; in Grez-sur Loing. France. In 1897 a member of an audience shot at him for his satirical use of the Norwegian national anthem in the incidental music to Gunnar Heiberg's Folkaraadet. In 1929 Sir Thomas Beecham gave him England's long delayed recognition with a six-day Delius festival...
...Post in 1919-21, he has three sons in journalism: Burris Jr., literate Harvardman, interpreter of the late great Thomas Fferdy and now sports cartoonist for the New York Journal; Paul, adman, and Logan, newsman, on the Denver Post. Dr. Jenkins publishes The Christian (weekly), syndicates "The Drift of the Day'' in 15 Midwestern newspapers. With a journalistic sense such as has earned many a less wise and earnest churchman the reputation of being a fool, he fills his Community Church to overflowing on Sundays with sermons on subjects like cinemas, kidnapping, Will Rogers, Amos...
There seems to be only one course left to take. The presence of a science requirement must at last be recognized as a fixture and remedies found to alleviate the existing pestilence. And to those who have been allowed or forced to drift along through three years of college with the torment of the science requirement hanging over their procrastinating heads the solution is clear. It is briefly that the same rule that applies to languages, however objectionable lit may sound at first, be installed in regard to science. Students should required, if there must be a science requirement...