Word: papini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Full of what?" retorts the ready but shallow sophomore. And that depends upon what you read. The Syraeuse University Bookstore reports that its best seller is Papini's "Life of Christ". A gentle raising of the critical eyebrow marks Harvard's reserved surprise at this announcement. In the CRIMSON Bookshelf for November the Community Bookshop states that Harvard's "great interest these days is in the works of the modern sophisticates, Mencken, Nathan, Van Vochten, Machen, Dreisen, and others, that stimulate the critical faculties...
From these reports it would seem that Roman idealism attracts the Syracusans. Indeed, it is not strange that an institution of learning which starts with an a priori preconception of truth should extend hearty welcome to Papini. "The massive brain and eagle eye" of the Methodist Church presides over the destinies of young Syracuse, and brings it up in the way it should go. Not only does this tend to promote among undergraduates that state of mind called "Fundamentalism", but also to attract embryonic Fundamentalists to its sympathetic bosom...
...opposed are these conceptions of education that it is almost a general truth that religiously endowed universities can rarely see eye to eye with those not so endowed. Syracuse need not be surprised, therefore, if Harvard tuns an indifferent back upon Papini. Harvard's reaction to the entire book does not differ greatly from its rejection of Papini's major premise as stated in the introduction, that "He who accepts the four gospels must accept the four gospels must accept them wholly, entire, syllable by syllable, or else reject them from the first to the last and say: 'We know...
...anthology of the best sermons of 1923-24 is now being collected and edited by Joseph Fort Newton, pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, Manhattan. The first volume is announced for September publication by Harcourt Brace & Co., who brought out Papini's Life of Christ. The collection is open to all creeds and all varieties thereof. Readers of TIME who desire to nominate sermons should address Dr. New ton at 76th Street and Central Park West, Manhattan...
Students numbering 14,000 are expected at Columbia University this Summer. Among the appointments to the Summer faculty (besides Giovanni Papini) are: Ralph W. Aigler, law, of Michigan; John S. Bassett, history, Smith; Harry G. Brown, economics, Missouri; Wilbur G. Foye, geology, Wesleyan; Charles Edward A. Winslow, public health, Yale; Lyman P. Wilson, law, Cornell; Erville B. Woods, sociology, Dartmouth; Craig Baird, rhetoric, Bates; Arthur C. L. Brown, English, Northwestern; Dr. Alexander E. Cance, Massachusetts ; Theodore Collier, history, Brown; Wilbur H. Cherry, law, Minnesota; Horace A. Eaton, English, Syracuse; Hugh Hartshorne, religious education, California; Harold C. Goddard, English, Swarthmore; Edwin...