Word: everly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the collection project barely under way, MacLeish declined to enlarge on his work in the library which is as he termed it "like nothing ever before tried...
Hidden deep in the basement depths of Widener Library off the corridor which leads to the stacks, is a small display of English, French, Italian, German, and United States World War posters. Coming at a time when this generation has heard more war talk than ever before, the exhibit is both interesting and timely...
There will be no classes tomorrow because the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is going to celebrate the birthday of Christopher Columbus. The Commonwealth is not a very pretty place to have to live in these days, but be it ever so humble, Columbus had a hand in discovering...
Five years ago Herbert Sebastian Agar won the Pulitzer Prize for history with The People's Choice. Critical beefing about Pulitzer Prize selections has gone on ever since there has been a Pulitzer Prize, but that time reached a crescendo. Historians called The People's Choice inaccurate. Leftists said it was fascist and critics said its selection on literary grounds was preposterous. Some of the outcry arose because half-a-dozen better works of history were published in 1933 but most of it came from opposition to Mr. Agar's thesis-that democracy was a dismal failure...
...called lacking in character in The People's Choice, emerges as his great hero. Bryan, damned as ignorant before, is pictured as an heir to Jefferson's ideals. And Author Agar, in his best book to date, is more eloquent and convincing in defending democracy than he ever was in attacking it. If anything unifies the U. S. enough to justify its being called a nation, he says, it is Jefferson's slogan: "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none." Worn smooth by innumerable stump speakers, preached by thousands who did not practice them, these...