Word: presents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becoming increasingly apparent that if any book be sufficiently odd either in subject matter or composition its success is assured in the present day market. Any excuse other than an extreme out-of-the-wayness would be difficult to find for the publication of Mr. Cooper's Albanian Tales. The fact that both the people and language of Albania are about as obscure as those of any country on earth is the only element of definite economic value possessed by this collection: that is, if one leaves out of account the expensive binding, and a number of excellent wood cuts...
...their distribution off in their first two years--out of the way like an old shoe. Students attentive to this somewhat myopic suggestion often find themselves forgetting the excellencies outside their field just as they are acquiring the maturity to enjoy them. One of the purposes of Harvard's present system is the elimination of this sort of thing, and it is unfortunate that the Ph.D attitude occasionally mitigates its potential usefulness. Columbia's new plan does nothing to remove this loophole, and in places reverts to the noxious errors of the elective system. It is still the part...
...BENDA is one of those writers who view the present state of the world with-alarm. His mildest predictions of future disaster foresee the disappearance of higher civilization from the face of the earth. His gloomier fore-boding envisage a universal war sufficiently perfect to accomplish the destruction of the human race itself. Having arrived at these conclusions he then sets out to discover the forces which make them inevitable...
...analysis of the nationalism which grew up in the latter half of the nineteenth century and found its highest expression in the World War is keen and comprehensive. But it is not so much with the nationalism of men of action that M. Benda is concerned in his present work as with the nationalism of the intellectuals. Artists, scientists, philosophers, and poets, men of whom a certain degree of universality and detachment from material objects has been expected from earliest times, have become violent partisans of this or that nationality and of this or that national culture. Therein lies what...
Except for the second period, where Worcester staged a desperate rally, the University staged a desperate rally, the University team had things its own way. The inexperienced forward line showed unusual strength and aggressiveness, and with more practice should develop a greater skill in passing the ball. At present the team makes up in individual strength what little coordination it lacks...