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Subscriber Smith's point is well taken, but how to blink the fact that Elmer Gantry is of "outstanding interest for TIME readers," which is what THE CREAM seeks to include together with first-rate and consequential books? From the newsmagazine viewpoint events are "good" in proportion, not to their moral or aesthetic content, but their prominence in the contemporary scene...
...raison d'etre of a Senator is to legislate rather than to perpetuate his lease of power and that of his party ad infinitum if possible. Yet the senatorial attitude seems to be the reverse of this. And Haines' reappointment seems to indicate that the president shares the senatorial viewpoint...
...longheaded Jewish baby was born in Amsterdam. His life, which remained in him until 1677, was as uneventful as it was contemplative. Others strove, he mused. He was fond of saying he viewed things sub specie aeternitatis (from the viewpoint of eternity). Last week Holland began a seven-day demonstration of the 250th anniversary of his death. They unveiled and wreathed a tombstone at the Hague. Queen Wilhelmina sent a representative. Though their hero had refused to teach in any university, 60 institutions sent emissaries. Curator Oko of the world's largest library of the dead...
...proposed respite from classes before the examination periods. Professor Diehl expressed approval, particularly from the viewpoint of the faculty. "This scheme, if effected, will enable the professors as well as the students to do a little individual work. Professors in American universities give so many lectures and are so busy it seems impossible for them to do any research work of their own, and this is obviously quite as much a part of their function as the instruction. Under the new plan, at least six weeks, little as that is, will be at the personal disposal of the professor...
There is no doubt of President Coolidge's sincerity and of the desirability of his plan from a U. S. viewpoint. BUT, what are the reactions of the other nations...