Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princetonian correspondent twisted the basic conception of a marriage course when he suggested merely a study of hygiene. To be complete, this side of marriage must be considered; but the psychological and social aspects are also important. Historians have pointed out that family life is the foundation of society; recognition of this fact is found at Harvard in Soc. 13. To complement this course, there is need for another which will consider the family from a more individual standpoint...
...fearful and hastily rearming England comes a vividly engrossing account of the last world conflict. Recording the struggle from purely a military standpoint, Captain Hart devotes himself mainly to a demonstration of the follies and mistakes of Allied and German generals with the attendant needless loss of life...
...purpose of the committee is to gather books to aid in the "upbuilding of a center of intellectual life beyond the reach of the present invasion." The committee is going to concentrate upon books in the social sciences...
...came bursting into Hay's room in his nightshirt, roaring with laughter over a caricature of himself, marks a kind of high point in Hay's astonishment. It also suggests the reason why Hay, like every other man who knew Lincoln intimately, spent the rest of his life collecting material about him. "What a man it is!" Hay exclaims. "Occupied all day with matters of vast moment, deeply anxious about the fate of the greatest army of the world, with his own fame & future hanging on the events of the passing hour, he yet has such a wealth...
Salute to Freedom churns thus for 615 pages. A life chronicle, it begins in 1902, ends last year. Between those dates Robin Stewart, son of a rich Australian ranchman, is a schoolboy, a university student, a ranch owner (75,000 acres), polo player, soldier, husband of an older woman who nags him and whom he drives insane, father of one illegitimate and two legitimate children, lover of one woman who loves him for himself, another who loves him for herself, another who loves him in spite of herself. A failure as a rancher, he becomes a Sydney intellectual, a magazine...