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...History of International Relations since 1500, and the History of Intellectual and Religious liberty. In the range of these a wide variety of related courses is accepted for concentration so that the department is adapted to men of greatly differing tastes. In this connection it is pertinent to scotch the myth that is every man's inheritance from secondary school that American history is a sterile and desolate waste. The usual preparatory school graduate, no fault of his, has seen American history through glasses so darkly distorting that it is fair to say he has not seen...
Cyrus Hall McCormick used to go with his father, Robert, into a log hut on their Virginia farm and the two would work secretly for hours. The father was a Scotch-Irishman, quick with his hands. He had invented a hemp-brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing machine that won him fame before he left the old country. He often stood pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father...
...ought to be neighbors," said a resonant Scotch voice;-the voice of Ramsay Macdonald. While the Lord Mayor of London and many another beamed, Mr. Macdonald added: "and handle our affairs in a neighborly spirit." Having thus spoken, he put down the polished instrument into which he had been speaking. He had inaugurated the first commercial telephone service between London and Berlin. He had spoken well. Subsequent conversations were carried on at a three-minute rate equivalent to $4 during the day and $2.50 at night. Inquisitive persons asked: "To whom did Mr, Macdonald speak?" They were abashed to learn...
This is a volume of exploits, explanations and ego. It is Benvenuto Cellini, reincarnated as a Scotch-American jack of all tricks and trades including newspaper cartooning, reminiscing at spry 65 over a career that began in the horsecar period. It brings in, with insouciant yet convincing familiarity, more famous names from all rosters of life than (perhaps) any other book ever published in the U. S. Its purpose is not to be historical, but since an age of arrogance is chronicled by one of its most superb exemplars, history is served with unwonted solicitude...
...themselves. Their shades are too heavy--their shadows too broadly etched. Miss Standing and Mr. Neill are not completely convincing as the "Half Ways". The audience is slow at understanding, but they are rather slow in helping them to understand. Mr. Mowbray as the cynic who tries to "Scotch the snake" of life has excellent moments, due perhaps to his possessing the nicest lines of the play. Yet he fails to maintain the consistency of Prior's character by ranting at times as no Priors ever rant--even when convinced that they are soundly, irrevocably dead...