Word: unconnectedness
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It has become customary to accuse undergraduates of indifference to politics. This accusation is unquestionably a just one, although there is at present an awakening of political interest, stimulated by the depression in addition to the inevitable excitement of an election year. The real trouble is not that students are...
Another light of learning already with Dr. Flexner's Institute is Professor Oswald Veblen, Princeton's mathematician. Mathematics is a brace for holding apparently unconnected phenomena together. For ordinary purposes three prongs of that brace suffice-length, breadth, height. But for profound science more grips on reality are...
The Dorothy Wordsworth, she shows us, was a woman of extraordinary sensitiveness, with a faculty of observation almost unequalled in the history of literature, who had the power of choosing the right phrase or word, and yet whose expression was for the most part vicarious. By her stimulation, her fact...
As the author himself says, the book gathers together certain thoughts about art around a figure whose work is eminently human in its appeal and comprehensive in character. In a lifetime almost completely devoted to the study of Rembrandt, he has discovered many interesting things about the artist which were...
"Alias the Doctor," probably the better of the two, is the vehicle selected for the restricted abilities of Richard Barthelmess. Since the atmosphere is melodrama and the theme is medicine, where else can such icy voiced and tendril fingered experts exist as those of Austria; so Bathelmess becomes Muller, and...