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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...degree in Philosophy must pass three three-hour examinations: one on Systematic Philosophy, for which the concentrator chooses as his special field either Metaphysics, Ethics, or Logic, and relates it to at least one of the other two; and two on the history of Philosophy, one ancient and one modern...
...satire which concerns the doings of a newly formed society for the suppression of vice will be given in modern dress, although the depraved morals are supposed to be those of a capital of a German duchy...
Frederick L. Schuman of Williams, whose International Relations texts are standard here, will teach in his field with Professor Fred A. Shannon of Kansas and George H. Blakeslee from Clark University. From Amsterdam comes Professor Karel R.Gallas to lecture on modern French language and literature...
...fetish, that men must be satisfied while women must be virtuous" is being discarded, the enlightened modern declares. "Forty fraternity boys on our campus (Rollins?) were discussing the kind of wives they wanted (Snow White or D. Durbin?). Not one of them would marry a girl whom he believed to be dishonest, but only one] (Cotton Mather?) demanded virginity in his bride. Since most of us girls expect to marry college graduates, or their intellectual equivalents that is an answer...
...large number of disconcerted readers who are mystified by some of the modern excursions into versification, Robert Hillyer's "First Principles of Verse" will allow them to regain their equilibrium by its clear presentation of the fundamental elements of poetry. It is a practical, elementary handbook for the poet or critic, but its significance lies in the ultra-conservative attitude of this well-known modern poet, who has been completely uninfluenced by the meanderings of some of his contemporaries...