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...suave, handsome, slightly dull Livingston Farrand as president, Cornell vitality has ebbed. What new ideas American education has today come elsewhere than from Cornell. Cornell's great scientists have gone. One of the last was famed "structuralist," psychologist, Edward Bradford Titchener (died 1927). Students from Europe, the Orient, the 48 States, no longer seek Cornell. Now many of those from outside New York State come as sons of loyal old graduates. Hiram Sibley's grandson is a Harvard sophomore. Cornell never drew young socialites from smart Eastern schools. Once it did draw serious young men in search...
Turning to Italian politics, Mr. Sim mons chiefly praised the Mussolini regime for stamping out "Communism ? that evil disease from the Orient...
Publisher Martin contemplates fusing his old magazine with his new, placing the amalgam under the direction of World Traveler's Editor Charles P. Norcross, now junketing in the Orient. Because World Traveler has about one-fourth of its stablemate's distribution, and because when two magazines combine one inevitably swallows the other, publishers guessed that the ever-mutating Mentor would be the one to endure...
Again Harold Lamb invokes the pageantry of the Mediaeval Orient and tells the history of a great movement of human beings drawn across the world by the power of an idea. He has restored to life the most significant and dramatic moment in human history, that brief moment when all our ancestors of all ranks and degrees were aroused by an unworldly exaltation...
...except when speaking of the late great Author Henry James), he admires those who do, writes about them. Unlike his books, he is brimming with youthful enthusiasm. Last September he married Miss Kate Smith of Chicago: they are now abroad. Other books: One Man's Initiation, Three Soldiers, Orient Express, Manhattan Transfer, Rosinante to the Road Again, A Pushcart at the Curb; The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc. (plays...