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Professor Babbitt is a scholar of tremendous erudition; he has read, roughly, everything. Be it Buddha, Coleridge, or Sinclair Lewis's last novel, it is all grist to his mill. The name of the course makes no difference; were it to be "A Study of the Literary Background of 'Alice in Wonderland'," Professor Babbitt would yet find in this work his favorities--the higher will, the ethical imagination, the central control making for decency and humility, the star of Burke, the Christian and the gentleman, and the wisdom of the ages--set against his villains--what one is tempted...
...every undergraduate. It means that he must face the task of formulating for himself from various sources some unified philosophy of his own. It is up to him to decide how much the traditional humanistic ways of thought and how much the newer techniques of science will supply grist for his philosophical mill. That he finds one more palatable than another need not force him to reject either entirely...
...first 174 pages of the story concern football. The hero, oddly enough, does not win the game by his prowess in the last minute. In Part 1 he is "Grist for the Mill"; in Part 2 he undergoes "Convalescence." The remainder of the book details his love for a student at the Conservatory in Boston, and his progress from divisional examinations to marriage...
...Germanic Museum, as the College has always known it, was founded in the good old tradition of those earliest museums of all, magpies nests, where anything was grist to the curator's, mill. But now, under the leadership of Dr. Kuhn, it has weighed its collection in the balance with the idea of exhibiting only what has educational value and leads to an appreciation of German art. Certain isolated plaster-casts have had to go because they were inadequate substitutes for the originals, while countless photographs have been relegated to steel files, where those who must can use them. There...
Each week brings its grist of Federal action under this statute. Fortnight ago it was the nut, bolt & rivet men whose trade association was dissolved by a U. S. court (TIME, March 30). Last week it was the sugar and steel industries upon which Attorney General Mitchell opened fire. The steelmakers, he charged, had for ten years conspired to fix the price of steel rails at $43 per ton. But far more spectacular was his suit in the U. S. District Court, New York City, to dissolve the Sugar Institute, whose 50 member-corporations refine more than...