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...page biography of Marlowe that pulls together a mass of recently discovered Marlowe material, explodes a few hoary Marlowe legends, but leaves the poet as mysterious and romantic as ever. Making a studious attempt to avoid scholarly language, Mr. Bakeless nevertheless spends much time answering earlier scholars, tracks many incorrect interpretations down many blind alleys...
...students fail to realize that special applications are due before an announced deadline, or else they refuse to bother with them on the assumption that a year at Oxford or Cambridge is wasted time compared to a year's experience in business or profession here. Both of these are incorrect from some viewpoints, and the latter one is particularly unfounded. The Henry Fellowships are helping to dispell this illusion...
Italian Delegate Luigi Aldrovandi-Marescotti, Count of Viano, opposed this, citing Italy's conquest of Ethiopia as an example of satisfactorily settling a dispute by armed force (TIME, May 18, 1936 et ante), and claimed that the words the U. S. (Ambassador wished to insert are "historically incorrect." Grey & graceful Norman Hezekiah Davis then subsided; the note was sent off to Tokyo; the Conference rose until Japan should see fit to reply, and its chief European delegates departed to their own capitals, leaving underlings to act in Brussels. Members of the U. S. delegation said that Ambassador Davis...
...Whether this is the result of grim lessons in the high school principal's office, or the natural human aversion to a confab with the "boss" matters not; the awe is a fact, and many men in this University shiver at any official summons. Such an attitude is incorrect. Student tuition and alumni endowment pay dean's salaries, and their proper duties are corrective and advisory rather than disciplinary. Moreover, to keep in touch with student trends and sentiments, deans must keep in contact with their charges; they obtain information in this way as well as giving...
...organization, Armour's abattoir, the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and the Clinic may be compared. But it is illogical and stupid to infer that cutting off a hoof in process of butchering is comparable to surgical amputation. And it is altogether incorrect to imply that a specialist has so limited a field as does a meat packer and finds his work no more stimulating and broadening than grading beef. After all, the Clinic has dealt with human beings. Did you say nearly 1,000,000 of them...