Word: historian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Although the year 1935 will leave a more unified impression on the historian than any of its immediate predecessors, this definiteness is the result of the commencement rather than the completion of several chapters in man's story. It was the first full year of Recovery in the U. S., and the beginning of a coincidental -and possibly related-decline in Franklin Roosevelt's popularity; the first year in which the League of Nations aggressively sought to end a war by punishing its perpetrator; and the year which gave evidence that the age-old machinery of diplomacy...
...independent, St. Paul's recognizes no traditional rival, takes part in no sports with other schools. Yet its fame rests more upon the hockey players it sends to Harvard, Yale and Princeton than upon its scholarship. Its academic aim has been stated by Arthur Stanwood Pier, its official historian, as "teaching boys to think like other people."* Over this rugged, if not particularly intellectual, school presides as rector and headmaster the Rev. Dr. Samuel Smith Drury. Dr. Drury is a tall, stern man with a powerful, sonorous voice. No mixer, he has little contact with the school...
Miss Holmes has done commendable work as the tercentenary historian of the school which dandled Harvard College on its knee. There are some omissions, however, which call for notice here. One fails to see any mention of Sir Thomas Downing, for whom Downing-street is named; tradition, at any rate, has always associated his name with the Latin School. It is a curious fact, which one may offer for what it is worth, that although the Latin School has graduated many men more distinguished than most presidents, it has never produced a President of the United States...
With The House of Morgan (1930) and The Decline of American Capitalism (1934), Lewis Corey established himself as a vigorous and well-informed historian of contemporary U. S. economics. His works were characterized by their impressive accumulation of little-known facts, by their revolutionary conclusions and by their repetitious and mechanical prose. Last week his third book revealed that Lewis Corey could combine his scholarly knowledge with an emotional appeal. Addressed to small businessmen, minor executives, white collar workers, architects, engineers, The Crisis of the Middle Class is designed to show them the hopelessness of their future under Fascism...
...Historian. As a young man Mark Sullivan was vastly impressed by the late Harry Thurston Peck's brilliant history of the contemporary U. S., Twenty Years of the Republic (1885-1905). Years later after seeing many a U. S. political event from the inside, Journalist Sullivan began to read accounts of some of them and say to himself, "That was not the way it happened." History, he concluded, can never be rightly written from documents alone. Too much happens behind the scenes, too much is decided by a passing word or nod of the head, too many varying accounts...