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...foreword to the Guide, Freshman Dean Leighton writes: "The merit of these statements is that they are not 'official' and that they are written by men who have taken, not given, the various courses. They give 'the dope.' It has been the practice of the CRIMSON to publish a similar comment on courses in the early numbers at the beginning of each college year since 1925; this is the initial year of any pamphlet...
...could buy a queer book last week, the first Nazi Who's Who. Thumbing it through, they found bits of paper carefully pasted over the biographies of Storm Troop Commander Ernst Roehm and other prominent Nazis shot during the "blood purge.'' (TIME, July 9.) In a foreword the harassed Nazi editor explained "Political events necessitated many corrections in this volume, which already had been printed." To reassure prospective purchasers who might be afraid to buy a book containing traitors' names, no matter how carefully pasted over a line of heavy type on the title page announced...
Thus wrote Manhattan's Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in a foreword to The Practice of Public Prayer published last week by Dr. J. Hillis Miller, dean of students at Bucknell University. Like Dr. Fosdick, Dr. Miller believes that public prayer is today in a precarious state. Investigating Dr. Fosdick as an able public supplicator. Dr. Miller finds that his prayers are formalized to suit the composite character of a large congregation. In 15 Sunday morning prayers he observes that Dr. Fosdick expresses "all the needs and desires he may be expected to express during the succeeding five years . . . for economic...
...confess their love, spend the night together. Reviser Paine omitted this chapter, as well as Emily's subsequent suicide, changed the final paragraphs of Graves's telescoped ending to a feebler transcription of his own. But even with these changes and without Graves's explanatory, controversial foreword, this book is still an amazing performance, should keep bright for many a long year the names of both Charles Dickens and Robert Graves...
...typical English understatement serves to underline many a tense scene's awkward moment. Thus he remains true to the old flag after all. For anyone who likes travel books and for many who do not, Brazilian Adventure will be a refreshingly new departure. Author Fleming admits in his foreword that his book differs "from most books about expeditions . . . also from most books about the interior of Brazil. It differs in being throughout strictly truthful. . . . The hardships and privations which we were called on to endure were of a very minor order, the dangers which we ran were considerably less...