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...thing, its aftermath verges on insanity. An analytical person, particularly a racial polyglot, can cope with the welter of causes and patriotisms only by adopting a sportive fatalism. Author Gerhardi's minor characters develop this sociological thesis on a very high plane of comedy. The major characters, who dwell on the border line of high tragedy, give a more intimate demonstration of the same philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sportive Fatalism* | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

President Lowell will be the principal speaker, and Assistant Dean Delmar Leighton '19, Secretary of the Committee on the Choice of Electives, will describe the application of the system. President Lowell will dwell on the purpose of concentration and its value in vocational training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN TO MEET AT NEW LECTURE HALL ON WEDNESDAY | 4/4/1925 | See Source »

...Cleveland of Johns Hopkins University for research into the physiology of protozoa inhabiting the digestive tracts of termites and other animals. These protozoa are far from being the smallest animals known, but the layman can get an idea of their size from the fact that they dwell in the intestines of white ants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Minutae and Magnificae | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...thought is too terrible to dwell upon. With grateful tears John Harvard can only shake his head and murmur: "Thank you, George, but it cannot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR, HOW COULD YOU! | 1/7/1925 | See Source »

...realized before: first, that like Robert W. Chambers, Robert Cortes Holliday, W. B. Maxwell and many other writers, he started his artistic career drawing rather than writing and then discovered his aptitude lay in the telling of stories. Perhaps this explains why he has always preferred to dwell more on intimate character sketches of Cape Cod folk rather than to bother too greatly with plot. He sees his quaint people whole and puts them on paper so, sketches them lightly and then inks them in with dialogue and anecdote, the situation furnishing a light background to the picture. The other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Do You LIke Sea? And Character? | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

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