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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Undersecretary of Agriculture that he got mud on his boots (when vacationing on his father's fruit farm in upstate New York), his job in life has been not in the fields but at a desk. By the same token his prime enthusiasms do not spring from the sight of an unusually good stand of wheat but rather from the contemplation of an unusual, bold, far-reaching economic idea. Last week he had extraordinary scope for such ideas, for he was about to carry out the land-use portions of the President's latest relief program...
...ordinary days, 25,000 to 50,000 on feast days. Of the cures registered and checked by physicians before and after every health-seeking visit, none is a "first class" miracle involving growth of new bone tissue. Typical "second class" cures reported from the Oratory are restoration of sight lost from atrophied optic nerves, healing of tuberculosis, cancer, gangrene, paralysis, rheumatism. Now 89, frail, wrinkled Brother Andre is still officially no more than "caretaker" of the shrine. To visitors who seek him out as they did last week he invariably says...
...through a deepening haze. . . . I was blind as a bat. I was dizzy as a coot. I looked out at my wings on both sides. I couldn't see them. I couldn't see anything. ... I could feel my guts being sucked down as I fought for sight and consciousness. . . . My eyes felt like somebody had taken them out and played with them and put them back in again...
...common tone of the article and letters is the fear that the present administration is allowing the qualities of character and those described thirty years ago under the head of ethics to be obscured by a modern brand of scholasticism. If we lose sight of this aim in the College, we might as well, to quote the letter of Mr. J. J. Wiggins '12, "Change the name of the old place, and call it "Harvard Square Normal School" or something like that, so that people won't get it confused with what it used...
Rose Macaulay's brief (153 pp.) study of Milton is a neat literary lecture. Though her biography, like Author Belloc's, is well this side idolatry, she seems more awed by the grandeur of the Miltonic tradition, approaches his fame with an informed but sight-seeing mind. She does not share Belloc's sturdy contempt for Milton's rodomontadinous prose, sees in some of it "Milton at his extraordinary best and worst, splendid, exasperating, scurrilous, moving, repulsive, and grandiose by turns...