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...members of the platform Committee. Thus with Editor White functioning as a diplomat rather than as a liberal, Landon views on the platform were largely left for presentation by such allies as Charles P. Taft (liberal younger brother of Ohio's favorite son, regular Robert A. Taft). The standpoint of Landon-liberalism was probably pressed less forcibly upon the platform committee than many another set of views...
John Reed was an amazing, a talented, and a brave man. He deserves the full and well-documented history that Granville Hicks has made of him both from a sociological and a personal standpoint. Things significant need not be things effective, or even things agreeable. The life of John Reed by Granville Hicks is a beautifully-written and extremely absorbing book...
...importance of the Princeton-Harvard-Yale Conference on Government and Economic Stability, the first of its kind in this country; and its success from an undergraduate standpoint rest entirely on the fact that the presence of well-known men actively engaged in government administration and business gave to the conference an atmosphere of basic practicality impossible to obtain in purely academic circles. The free and frank discussion, completely off the record, of present problems was not only strongly stimulating, but a vital factor in dissipating many a befogged undergraduate and academic idea. The frank disagreement and resulting argument...
...York Harbor last week, watched U. S. Public Health physicians scrutinize passengers' wrists for early signs of smallpox. Lord Horder was amused. Said he: "They look at wrists because they did it a hundred years ago when diseases such as smallpox were a real danger. From the standpoint of medicine we are no longer so much concerned with acute, fulminating diseases as with chronic diseases. With the wear and tear of life, heart, arterial and nervous diseases are increasing. Acute diseases have almost died...
...there is any way to discover 'the" American it is that of the Physical anthropologist. The observer who approaches the question from the nationalistic or cultural standpoint fails to draw a conclusive answer, on the one hand from his natural bias, and on the other by confusion and multiplicity of definitive bases...