Word: holte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WITHERED ROOT-Rhys Davies-Holt ($2.50). "You Welsh! A race of mystical poets who have gone awry in some way." But this judgment by a cynical agnostic had no dampening effect on Reuben's religious fervor. Born of a stoic collier and a bibacious mother who starved the boy for affection, he was a child of curious, conflicting emotion. Gleefully he chopped up frogs and roasted mice alive; demurely he followed his father to church, and gradually religion won out-he was hypnotized, obsessed. Evenings, he pored over the Bible, sweated to convert his friend the agnostic. And evenings...
...Hamilton Holt, president of Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.) D. Humanities
ALFRED H. HOLT...
...Agent Holt reread TIME'S report of Buchmanism. TIME reported: "Buchmanism, in its essentials, is easily seen as an adaptation of Christianity, which contains many features of traditional excellence. Conversion, contemplation, confession-upon these it lays emphasis...
...author. It abolishes the possibility of flagrant neglect of work; it changes the professor from a quizzer to a guide; it removes the threat of periodic examinations and of the cramming that anticipates them; and for the old lock-step education it substitutes individual freedom of movement. Although President Holt in criticizing the recitation and lecture system of Yale and Harvard is brave and heralded in combatting the present movement toward complete freedom in study, his retrogression toward the grammar school is quite unacceptable. The virtue of final examination is at present a subject of persistent editorial inquiry...