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Stefan Zweig has accomplished in his biography of his friend, Romain Rolland, what Romain Holland himself had in mind when he wrote his "heroic biographies" of "Beethoven", "Michelangelo", and "Tolstoi". Rolland, in these books, wanted to write the lives of the heroes of history as he knew them. "True greatness was for him to be found only in solitude, in the struggle waged by the individual against the unseen." He aimed at bringing solace to others by showing, in the lives of these men, that their titanic and lonely struggles brought them at last to the places they so well...
...heralded as the most comprehensive work that has so far appeared on Romain Rolland, and as one of the most important and delightful biographic of recent years...
...Sorbonne are giving academic sanction to the cause of their own countries. German scholarship is found to be pedantic; French scholarship to be superficial. Most intellectual lights, like Sir Gilbert Murray and Gabriele d'Annunzio, have found their refuge in acquiescent, even enthusiastic patriotism. Some like Romain Rolland preach tolerance in a foreign country. Bertrand Russell and Maximilian Harden who insist on academic freedom reap only dishonor among their own people...
...Botany, George Safford Torrey '13; in Zoology, Leslie Brainerd Arey 2G., Herbert Green-leaf Coar, and David Henry Wenrich, 2G., in Chemistry, James Bryant Conant 1G., William Ward Davies 1G., Tenny Lombard Davis 1G., Morris Folger Hall 1G., and Greek and Latin, Lester Burton Struthers 3G.; in Mathematics, Rolland Ryther Smith '15; in Philosophy, Ralph Mason Blake 3G., and Henry Thomas Moore 3G.; in Psychology, John Henderson Beazley 2G.; in the Cryptogamic Herbarium, Arthur Bliss Seymour G.S. '84, in Zoology, Alfred Clarence Redfield 1G. Victor Vugve...
Foxcroft Hall.--For election, Frank Peer Beal, And., of Inglewood, Cal.; Homer Hargrove Breland 2L., of Derby, Miss.; George Henry Durgin '15, of Exeter, N. Y.; John Winthrop Lincoln '15, of Hingham; John Louis Phelon '16, of Granville Centre; Henry Aloysius Sasserno '15, of Dorchester; Rolland Ryther Smith '15, of Springfield; George Frederick Stowell '15, of Worcester; John Sarkis Tomajan '14, of Worcester, Berger Verner Zamore '15, of Cambridge...