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This all too brief history is furnished by the Encyclopedia Britannica, and brings us to the present day, with the emphasis in great centers of learning no longer on the problems of right and wrong, but rather on the problems of right and left. Let us look at conservative Yale today, with the Skull and Bones and the Book and Snake hinting of the secret caucus, and the New Haven Railroad still running two hours late...
...observe as a footnote, in your . . . issue of Sept. 30, the statement that the Encyclopedia Britannica is the world's oldest continuing publication. This leads me to believe that you have inside information in regard to the discontinuing of the Almanac de Gotha which first appeared in 1764 and of the Annual Register, the first volume of which bears the date...
...TIME, with no inside information on Joseph Stalin's publishing plans (his troops seized the German Almanac's files last February), slipped on the British Register; it is still going strong, and is senior to the Encyclopedia Britannica by ten years...
...just as an irate printer was about to destroy the plates for nonpayment of a bill, Sears, Roebuck & Co. stepped in and bought the bankrupt Encyclopaedia Britannica* Three years ago Sears decided that the publication of an encyclopedia was "foreign" to its merchandising business, made an outright gift of the venture to the University of Chicago. Last week Chicago's Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins decided that it was time to make better use of Britannica and its film and publishing subsidiaries in his favorite crusade: adult education. He turned over the university to President Ernest C. Colwell for nine...
Like The Good Earth, The Land and the Well is virtually an encyclopedia of Hindu manners and practices, revealed through the lives of a poor Hindu family in a dry and dusty village in one of the states of Rajputana. Using the rhythmic changes of the seasons and the monotonous ups-&-downs of peasant life as her shoehorn, Author Wernher deftly eases into her book not only such basic and familiar Indian matters as Hindu segregation, the exactly graded structure of the family, but also details about lesser-known rites of Hindu worship, the involved ceremonies that accompany the simplest...