Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becoming increasingly apparent that if any book be sufficiently odd either in subject matter or composition its success is assured in the present day market. Any excuse other than an extreme out-of-the-wayness would be difficult to find for the publication of Mr. Cooper's Albanian Tales. The fact that both the people and language of Albania are about as obscure as those of any country on earth is the only element of definite economic value possessed by this collection: that is, if one leaves out of account the expensive binding, and a number of excellent wood cuts...
...latter part of one's course is becoming more and more the defect of the Harvard system. Overzealous tutors encourage their charges to get their distribution off in their first two years--out of the way like an old shoe. Students attentive to this somewhat myopic suggestion often find themselves forgetting the excellencies outside their field just as they are acquiring the maturity to enjoy them. One of the purposes of Harvard's present system is the elimination of this sort of thing, and it is unfortunate that the Ph.D attitude occasionally mitigates its potential usefulness. Columbia's new plan...
...works with which he has to deal, a mere investigation and discussion of what may be called the facts of the novels--their construction, their action, even their dramatic quality--however painstaking and exact it might be, would be of little value. One must go deeper to find the kernel; one must pierce the shell of the detective story and delve deep into the psychological development of the works, for in them is mirrored the development not only of Dostoevsky's idea, but of Dostoevsky himself. When one has done that, the man who wrote the "Notes from Underground...
While M. Benda's analysis of political passions is admirable and his main thesis is brilliant, many thoughtful readers will not find themselves in agreement with his main philosophical tenets nor will they be inclined to applaud some of his own political prejudices. M. Benda is still searching for eternal verities, abstract justice, and absolute good dissociated from its material embodiment. The modern philosopher who regards all values in a relative light is condemned as a renegade and a disgrace to his high profession. Mr. Benda is finally imbued with a thoroughly anti-Teutonic point of view. Dispassionate modern history...
...Bride's Progress you can find whatever meaning you are seeking. The married man of years, steeped in maturity, will find in wholesome social-comedy style a clever, epigrammatic bit of marriage philosophy. The unmarried college student will find a daring piece of ironic comedy, a novel of the most risque caliber...