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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slander the student's intelligence. The very purpose of education is to fit the mind for just this sort of impartial investigation. Certainly a Harvard education does not leave the mind so contracted that there is no available space for new ideas, nor so vacant that all unfamiliar conceptions find immediate and permanent abode there. Liberalism is not merely a sacred ratification of democracy: it also includes a degree of toleration for differing conceptions of government...
...point with pardonable pride to such a book as Dorothy Sayers' Gaudy Night. Gaudy Night is not such a gaudy title as might be supposed. It refers to an Oxford colloquialism, "gaudy" (from Gaudeamus igitur), which is the equivalent of the U. S. "college reunion." Readers who are unfamiliar with Author Sayers' careful workmanship will find other surprises. Gaudy Night is twice as long (469 pp.) as the average murder story, and Author Sayers has taken at least twice as much pains as the average with her characters and setting. Second, its interest depends almost as much...
From retirement the Warrior was now returning to the war, mounted on a strange charger known as the American Liberty League and surrounded by such unfamiliar lieutenants as Banker Winthrop Aldrich, ex-Senator David A. Reed, Steelman Ernest T. Weir, Politicalite Alice Longworth...
REVOLUTION AND FREEMASONRY- Bernard Fay-Little, Brown ($3). Diffuse study of Freemasonry from 1680 to 1800, filled with unfamiliar information whose historical significance the author does not convincingly establish...
...crucial part of the Spanish, empire," but also with the vast sweep of ocean where Spain's enemies concentrated their attempts to destroy her power. Philip Ainsworth Means's imposing history of the Spanish Main consequently includes colonial problems as well as accounts of pirate raids, unfamiliar items on the conquest of Peru, discussions of Indian psychology and developments in European politics that affected life in the new world. Beginning with a broad description of "America on October 10, 1492," it gives a fresh account of the impact of the discovery on Europe, where in all ministries carefully...