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...encyclopedia of food by a diet expert who loves to eat was published last week by Dr. Asa Crawford Chandler of Rice Institute, Houston, Tex. Dr. Chandler seldom counts calories, is never finicky. He claims that the flesh of rattlesnakes is "delicious and nutritious," that "grasshoppers, caterpillars and termites . . . afford wholesome food if there is no acquired aversion." Besides these odd chips of information, Dr. Chandler's book (The Eater's Digest, Farrar & Rinehart; $2.75) is packed with practical discussions on such things as digestion, nutritional diseases, bellyaches, diet during pregnancy, ravenous children, vitamins...
Professor Lerner, who came to the profession of teaching political science through the Yale Law School, editorial work on the Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, and three years of journalistic work as editor of the Nation, was one of the most popular lecturers at Harvard last year. "Ideas Are Weapons," is one of his latest and most popular books...
...year's leave of absence to act as the Federal Council of Churches' liaison official between churches and chaplains; Bishop John Francis O'Hara of the Roman Catholic Army and Navy diocese; Rabbi Isaac Landman, editor of the Universal Jewish Encyclopedia and a chaplain with Pershing in Mexico...
...Landis was awarded by popular acclaim the prize for effort; Professor Griswold received the strainer for being under the most strain for the evening. For knifing the interlocutor, William Hardee received the dagger and Mrs. Maguire got the happy wooden hen. The grand prizes, sets of the most popular encyclopedia, the World almanac, went to Judge Magruder, Professor Griswold, John Richardson, and Mrs. Follansbee
...course thesis point out that 20 years ago Harvard went to extremes in demanding written work. Then every history course required either a thesis or essay, and much of the work submitted was more hastily thrown together than an English A assignment; many papers were stereotyped paraphrases of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. With students writing papers for three or four courses, the Faculty found it too difficult to keep the standards up. Today, worried by "administrative difficulties," heads of courses give few if any written assignments...