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This self-analysis which the law school has been carrying on for the last three years has, however, stimulated certain major changes. Most important is the new curriculum announced in an article by Professor Simpson in the April issue of the Harvard Law Review. To meet the increasing emphasis which the trend of the times is placing on new legal techniques, and to permit more intensive specialization in the final year, it has been found desirable to compress into the first two years much of the material traditionally studied over the whole course. The faculty committee, and in particular Dean...
Several weeks ago, in your review of [TIME, March 21] Richard Eberhart's Reading the Spirit, you called this young, intelligent, deep-thinking poet a "ham." Everyone knows what a "ham" actor is, but it seems to me TIME has very vulgarly tried to coin a new word where there is no need...
Have you ever noticed that the World Almanac has long used on its cover a map which shows Great Britain (but not Ireland) firmly attached to the European continent? I baited them about this once in the Saturday Review of Lit., but perhaps if mentioned in a journal of slightly larger circulation they might correct it. Who knows? They might at the same time put in five Great Lakes (instead of four) and include Long Island. CHRISTOPHER MORLEY...
After extensive travels in North China, the Japanese War Minister General Hajima Sugiyama returned to Tokyo last week and obviously it was time to review the war (see map), now about to enter a fresh, perhaps final phase. Japanese Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye admitted last week that his Cabinet has been split for months on the question of whether the Empire's best policy is merely to keep trying to hold and digest what Japan has gained or instead make supreme efforts to chase Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who lost his Capital Nanking four months ago, out of Hankow...
Extracts of the book, printed in a recent issue of "News Review," an English weekly, resulted in the banning by the Federation of London Wholesale News Dealers of the entire issue of the news magazine in which they appeared...