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Died. Louis A. Coolidge, 64, prominent Republican, onetime (1888-91) private Secretary to Henry Cabot Lodge, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1908-09), President of the Coolidge Family Association (1920- 23), contributor of an article on the Republican party to the Encyclopedia Americana; in Milton, Mass., of sclerosis of the liver...
...French Revolution on English Politics and on the reform movement?" The essay should take some sixteen hours of preparation. It is possible to scamp the work a bit, but it is hard to believe that an Oxford tutor could be made to accept an essay taken bodily from the Encyclopedia Britanica, a thing which certainly has been done at Harvard. The pupil reads the essay aloud to his tutor, which takes about half the hour. The tutor then spends the rest of the hour picking the essay to pieces or discussing ideas suggested by it. Everything here depends...
...Professor Kirsopp Lake, who will discuss "Religion, Yesterday and Tomorrow." Professor Lake, who lectured this year at two meetings of the Phillips Brooks House lecture course on religion, is the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History and is the author of many writings on religion, including articles in the Encyclopedia Brittanica...
...tutors, too, have begun to sense that the firm, confident tone displayed at their conferences is indeed an upward swing in the scholastic cycle, and not a more bull movement. No longer are a tutee's remarks confined to what he can assemble from the pigeon holes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. No longer does he deftly turn the conversation from Elizabethan to contemporary drama, on which he chats in his best demi-tasse manner. No longer...
Undoubtedly, the Graphic did not hatch its idea from The New York Evening Post, for, since no Graphic reader would be likely to look at such a "highbrow" paper, the same might apply to its editors?and, besides, the Post did not offer prizes for last lines. However, the Encyclopedia Britannica, in its 1911 edition, remarked: "In recent years, competitions of the 'missing word' type have had a considerable vogue, the competitor, for instance, having to supply the last line of the limerick...