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Arthur Darby Nock, Frothingham Professor of the History of Religion at Harvard University, will be awarded an honorary L.L.D. at the University of Berlin on June 30th according to an announcement published recently in the London Times and confirmed last night by Professor Nock. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, England and a lecturer in the Classics before he came to Harvard in 1929 as a lecturer on the History of Religion. He was appointed Frothingham Professor of Religion at Harvard...
...JOURNAL OF THESE DAYS-Albert Jay Nock-Morrow ($2.75). Of the few One of the few writers who hold themselves aloof from the contemporary scene, Albert Jay Nock is one of the loftiest. Like the anarchist who enjoyed his freedom from all political allegiances, Bystander Nock is in the comfortable position of running no danger that his superior wisdom in economics, politics et al. will be put to a test in practice. Not given to the loud laugh, he has spent much of his time recording in his journal his amusement and disgust at his fellow-countrymen's behavior...
...Agin the government'' in every possible way, Heretic Nock makes some general observations that may well shock traditional minds. "A pretty Frenchwoman is worth mention; I never saw more than three that I can remember." Disbelievers in capital punishment will applaud his shrewdness: "When kidnapping was made a capital crime, probably not a single legislator realized that he was voting to put a premium on murder, and to provide a direct encouragement to lynching." A life- long believer in the late Henry George's single tax, he has "never propagandized for it, because our people would...
Like many another native critic, however, Nock is quick to defend the U. S. against "superficial" foreign criticism. "We have the finest things to be found anywhere, and the finest people in the world, plenty of them. . . . But the point is that with us such persons are wholly ineffectual; they have no influence; our society does not at all take its tone from them, directly or indirectly. ..." What riles him is such obtrusive phenomena as book-reviewers, who "have no idea whatever of the classification of books ... or of what makes them so. They also have no idea that...
...Sullivan; Vittoria's "Ave Maria"; "J'Entends le Moulin," a French-Canadian folk song: "The Camels Are Coming"; "Salvation Belongeth To Our Lord," by Tsegesnakoff; the "Cavalier's Song," by Sanford' two choruses from "Orpheus," by Glueck; "Firefiles" and "At Father's Door," two Russian folk songs; "Secret Nock," by Brahms; and "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite," by Handel...