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...BROOK HOLT...
...Rollins campus is really something. During the 21-year presidency of imaginative Hamilton Holt, Rollins' midway has blossomed with such sprightly sideshows as a course in Evil, a professorship of hunting & fishing, a tree-lined "Walk of Fame" paved with stones from the homes and haunts of the world's great, from Louisa M. Alcott to Christopher Columbus. Also, for all its eccentricities, it has been a sprightly school, with a lively interest...
These experiences have given Joe Brandt some strong opinions on the uses of scholarship. Last week, about to leave Chicago for a new job (president of the Manhattan publishing firm, Henry Holt & Co.), he expressed them at summer graduation exercises. Said he: the Ph.D. is one of education's major ills. "Consciously or unconsciously," Brandt declared, "the American scholar has . . . spent his time on minutiae while Rome burned. . . . [He] is hopelessly inadequate to give the people intellectual and spiritual leadership. And unless our people have such leadership, all the battleships, all the planes, armies and atomic bombs...
...GERMAN TALKS BACK - Heinrich Hauser- Henry Holt...
...read it," confesses Publisher Holt, "with anger [and] revulsion, [but] we recognized that these emotions . . . did not answer the question whether the book should or should not be published." Berlin-born (1901) Heinrich Hauser is an experienced journalist, and author of 30-odd novels and political studies (Hitler versus Germany; Battle against Time). In 1939 he fled Germany, not so much, it would seem, because he hated Hitler, but because his children were half Jewish. He wanted to write freely, and he believed that Germany was "accursed." After six years on a farm outside New York City, Hauser still fears...