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...national men's figure skating champion has been included. His story is told in one of 17 chapters, covering the activities of three dozen athletes who, in the author's opinion, did something noteworthy during the 1948 season. Waldman, a sportswriter for the Christian Science Monitor, is sufficiently familar with his subjects, but his lack of imagination and his love of acntimentality make his accounts trite and often contrived...
American History is a peculiarly suitable province for such academic pursuits because the problems that face us all cannot be understood without some historical perspective. Crop control, John Lewis's C. L. O., and the President's foreign policy can be most intelligently discussed by those familar with the rise of Populism, the history of craft unionism, and the conditions prevalent when Washington counseled his country against entangling alliances. More tolerance to new policies that seem to clash with old American customs may develop when we realize that many accepted reforms like free education, the limitation of hours of labor...
...after this epidemic of book-thieving that the familar turnstile was installed, ending what Briggs called the "naive period" when no one was suspected of desecrating a temple of learning. The effect of the turnstile is shown in the report of Robert P. Blake, Director of the University Library, for the next year which states that book losses had decreased 85 per cent...
...customs in New England institutions during the eighties. The famous teachers as well as the famous buildings, moreover, are accorded the honour of illustrations, which are quite prolific in the book. The buildings qualify because of age, the men because their names, even to present day ears, ring very familar, though most are gone. The number of these familiar names is a partial justification of the book itself, a reminders that, although then as always a small puddle, New England served as the habitat of many large frogs. Hazing, dining, studying, and athletics, together with instances of curious customs from...
...called Nothing for it is entirely imperceptible to the senses of man. Only by inference and mental conception has man discovered that Nothing exists. Capt. See calls it "the world gas" instead of by its more familar name, ether. It is the substance that fills all the spaces among the heavenly planets, among the planets' composite molecules, among the molecules' composite atoms. To do this it must, of course, be a very tenuous and insinuating substance. Capt. See figures it is 47 billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times...