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...portly man motored down from New England to Florida, not to put up at an expensive hotel for golf, sunburn and palmy evenings, nor yet to fill his pockets with realty profits, as other Northerners were doing; but to advance the cause of learning. He was Hamilton Holt, sociologist, peace promoter, onetime (1897-1921) editor of his grandfather's liberal weekly, The Independent. He became president of Rollins College? (TIME, Sept. 28, 1925) at Winter Park, Fla., and he proceeded to get Rollins mentioned soon and frequently in educational journals by abolishing lectures; instituting an informal course in things bookish...
...Beach made a speech. Little Rollins, he said, needs a ten-million-dollar endowment. It needs buildings. Plans are drawn for "the most beautiful group of college buildings of this type of architecture in America. Hamilton Holt, the president, has made in California and in the Mediterranean countries a special survey of buildings suitable for the Florida climate and is now having architects draw plans calling for the best effects...
...More than $5,000,000 of the fund to be raised will be used to endow professorships, so that Mr. Holt can carry out his plan to assemble at Rollins a group of great teachers who have the rare gift of teaching and who possess the nobility of character to inspire youth...
There appear side-lights on family life and every-day occurence like "Bashan and I", (Henry Holt and Co.) a dog story. But not until 1925 was there definite proof that Thomas Mann had entered into the didactic and reflective period of his life. "The Enchanted Mountain" has nothing to do anymore with actions and happenings of which Buddenbrooks are as full as an old chronicle. It is purely experience of the soul, action-or not even that,-reflection of the mind. Seven years, spent in a sanitarium in the Swiss Mountains-what can you expect of such an absurd...
...EARLY WORM?Robert Benchley (Illustrated by Gluyas Williams)?Holt ($2). Funnyman Benchley's creek of comedy has by no means yet run dry. He babbles gently on in parody of Sherwood Anderson, H. G. Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate...