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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rare day now when one can pick up a paper without reading an interview or a speech in which there is a warning against college radicals. Only yesterday in addressing the graduating class at Columbia, President Butler animadverted upon the tendency among college men to revolt against authority or precedent. It is amusing for the most part, this fear, so frequently expressed, that the universities are becoming. Those who are of the college know how exaggerated the danger is; the student who cannot think of five real radicals out of the hundred or more men he know is not likely...
Finely educated men must be rare. Modern literature is a good-sized world in itself. The mere word "philosophy" stirs the bile of some folks. According to that accomplished humanist-philosopher, George Santayana, it has very largely come to mean "psychology" in the United States. Dean West must remember with delight the distinction attributed to President McCosh: "When two men are talking and one of them understands what the talk is about. that is metapheesics; when neither of them understands it, that is philosophy...
...Widener Room has on exhibition at present a rather unusual collection of rare items connected with Dickens, Stevenson and Kipling. In the Dickens' case there are manuscripts of his parody on the "Elegy in a Country Church yard", (unpublished); autograph letters between Dickens and Thackeray; and three presentation copies of the Pickwick Papers...
...Stevenson case is filled with rare and amusing leaflets and pamphlets which were issued at the Davos-Platz Press, with rough woodcuts by Stevenson himself. Among the Kipling items are shown an original draft of the first two verses of the "Recessional"; proof sheets of "Kim" with corrections in the author's hand, and several other equally interesting pamphlets...
...Letters of an Ocean Tramp." the first book by William McFee, was regularity published for the first time in this country in Doubledy, Page & Company on April 29th. Only few copies of the London edition have strayed to American and these are so rare and difficult to obtain that the growing army of McFee admirer has demanded a new edition. This is reprinted from the original book and there is in addition a 6000-ward pretaee by the author...