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What the U. S. principally remembers Rhodes for is the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford-founded in the pathetic belief that they would cement the bonds of Empire, bring back the strayed U. S. colonies to England's spiritual fold, encourage transatlantic handshaking generally. Reason why there are so many U. S. Rhodes Scholarships, says Biographer Millin: he thought there were still only the original 13 States in the U. S., assigned two to each (in 1929 modified by Parliament to twelve from each of eight U. S. districts...
...Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold...
...Harvey Fergusson, are much the same as they were 300 years ago. There are still 9,000 Pueblo Indians, out of an estimated 25,000 when the Spaniards came. Author Fergusson says the Navajos are the only aboriginal people in the U. S. that have increased, have multiplied five-fold in the last 70 years, now number 30,000. Rio Grande, neither a guidebook nor a history, is something of both, covers in simple anecdotal style a big country, a spacious time. The easy-rambling narrative overtakes and passes historical figure after figure, never stays long with any: Indian Pope...
...will shock those who have loved or envied Harvard for its handful of truly great thinkers. But the student of Professor Babbitt who has studied the details of his life-long fight against the drifting artificial culture with which many so-called "moderns" annoint themselves, will realize the two-fold significance of his death. For the world has lost a remarkable man; at once a brilliant teacher and a great warrior...
...least one phase of the three-fold Curtis empire-the cultural-Brothers Curtis & Gary are walling, earnest heirs. Gary is an officer of the Curtis Institute, as is Curtis who is vice president of the orchestra association. Also Curtis heads, as president, the social Philadelphia Forum (lectures, dances, music) and sits on the Committee of Seventy for political reform. Professionally the destiny of the Curtis regime is difficult to read. Brother Gary is training himself for technical command but it may well be the voice of Brother Curtis that is some day heard speaking his politico-social creed through their...