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...Daily the Associated Press surveys the universe and deliberately selects from its manifold happenings such events as are significant of society today. Then it groups these events with a proper sense of proportion in order that the newspaper reader may have a correct picture of things as they are- the one sure foundation for straight thinking...
ESSAYS IN POPULAR SCIENCE? Julian S. Huxley?Knopf ($4). "There is a danger," says the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Evolution), "in these days of manifold information and broadcast amusement, that the world will become divided into those who have to think for their living and those who never think at all." Hence?and because the layman, while he is knowing and kindly towards an atom or electron when he meets one, is embarrassed by sperms and ova and benighted as to chromosomes?hence another volume of popular biology...
...male reporters, humorists, critics there is only one Mrs. Reporter Adams, one Anita ('Blondes') Loos, one Irita Van Doran [of 'Books' in the New York Herald-Tribune], And how fine it would be if these women would get proudly feministic, cleanse the newspapers of their manifold manly vices...
Very rarely men arise with the genius for distinguished public service untouched by the ambition for public recognition. Such a man was John White Hallowell '01. His death in the very midst of manifold activities in the service of Harvard and the nation is a great personal loss. It is, however, the peculiar good fortune of humanity that the work and influence of a man blessed with purity of motives, strength of purpose, and clarity of vision, remain and grow stronger after he has passed away...
Sympathy is due Mr. Tunney why should he be prevented from capitalizing his fame? Others have had no trouble in performing in front of footlights--and many were less adroit boxers than Gene. There is, of course, a law, but there are manifold ways, of avoiding it: wearing evening clothes over boxing tights is one method, and Mr. Tunney found that constant use has dulled its aptitude. Doubtless he will new get a more supple lawyer, one versed in such acrobatics as getting away with an improper thing in a perfectly proper manner. But in the interim there...