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...phrasing acquire a new freshness. But to all save the most causal reader, this latest plunge into the mystery of Talleyrand is worthless; considered as an historical document, it offers practically nothing save a superficial rehash of secondary material; considered as biography, it loses all effectiveness in the morass of inexperience and slipshed, dull expression...
...forced to do without even the simplest supplies for its students, while the Physics department can furnish each of twenty Freshman with an instrument valued at eighty dollars. Besides such minor cases, there are classic monstrosities like the Engineering School, which has been laboring for years in a morass of difficulties originating in the will which endowed...
...most recent plan for snagging the world out of the economic morass is the product of the mind of Chicagoan Solomon Levinson, who is reputed to have suggested the term and the idea of a moratorium to President Hoover. The Levinson plan seeks to counteract the French theory of the unity of war debts and reparations by establishing a relationship between war debt reparations and disarmament. It postulates a four year armament holiday...
Nothing, of course, could be more futile than class discussions at their worst. The average section meeting, too often led by an inexperienced man, almost invariably ploughs laboriously and ineffectually in a circular direction through a morass of conflicting, ill-considered, irrelevant opinions. The failure of section meetings need, however, be no criterion of the probable success of class discussions; it does stand as a warning. To avoid fruitless expression of opinion on everything from communism to room rents in the Houses, the topic for discussion should be strictly defined. It should if possible be based on the study...
...whole the book is one of great merit. Many of its conclusions may well stand unchanged after future years have lifted the world out of the present morass. Because it constitutes a fine record, and an exposition of the history of 1931, and particularly on account of the underlying stress of the fact that the United States is vitally concerned in world affairs, and that our country must definitely trim its sails to the international wind currents, the authors of "World Affairs" have inaugurated a series of books that represent a distinct service...