Word: reviews
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent issue of the "New Republic" is a review of the latest volume of Professor Channing's History of the United States. The reviewer, from his point of vantage in the real world of affairs, has seen fit to criticize not only the book but the author as being under the influence of the "academic scholar" point of view. Not content with this rebuke he proceeds to the startling generality that Harvard intellectually is in the stagnant backwaters. "Some who have their doubts", says he, "as they look upon the fresh waters flowing by their college, doors, may remember that...
...hard to bear up under such scorn. Far be it from us to enter into an argument about historical methods; but such a naive view of Harvard and its professoriat, having little to do with the review of history books, falls within the range of editorial comment. We cannot help wondering if the "New Republic" is expressing the opinion of unbiased thinkers in the country today. One would not suspect to find so conventional an attitude in so Promethean a periodical. The reviewer has apparently excavated the pre-historic, absent-minded professor from the joke column and cartoon page...
...which begins immediately after the Christmas recess, the debates are between the clubs, which number 64 in the School. Two men from each club argue against two men from each of the other clubs. The cases are decided by justices drawn from the faculty, the board of the Law Review, and the Board of Advisors...
After a luncheon given by Mayor Peters at the Somerset General Diaz will be escorted to the State House where he will review the military parade, then to the Common where a presentation will be made by Boston Italians. Following this ceremony he will leave for Cambridge...
...group of ten members of the Student Liberal Club will go today as guests of Dr. Frederic Palmer '69, member of the Faculty of Divinity, and editor of the Theological Review, on a trip through the mills of the American Woolen Company at Lawrence...