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...Flexner criticizes Rollins College for having a professor of books. The professorship is a novelty. Granted. But the idea of such a professorship is far from novel. In 1856 no less an immortal than Ralph Waldo Emerson, in an essay on "Books," said...
Other speakers for the month are Pierre de Lanux, Director of the Paris Information Bureau, who will talk on "Our International Ethics" on November 13; Waldo Cook. Editor of the "Springfield Republican" is to speak on an unannounced subject on November 18; and R. M. Lovett, President of the League for Industrial Democracy one of the editors of "The New Republic", and Professor of English in the University of Chicago is to speak on November 25 on "Police, Politics, and Crime...
Piorro de Lanux, director of the Paris League of Nations Information Bureau, and Waldo Cook, editor of the Springfield Republican are scheduled to be the first two speakers on the Harvard Liberal Club program, it was announced yesterday by William Stix, president of the club. M. Lanux has signified that his subject will be "Our International Ethien", while Mr. Cook will announce his topic later...
...followers of Christ SS. Simeon, Stephen, Paul, Barnabas, Timothy. Carved above them on the arch of the porch are two rows of angels framing a row of greatest scientists (Hippocrates to Albert Einstein, only living person yet figured in the whole church), a row of philosophers (Pythagoras to Ralph Waldo Emerson, only American figured), a row of religious leaders (Moses to David Livingstone. African missionary, explorer). High on the porch's tympanum surrounded by Mark's lion, Matthew's angel, John's eagle, Luke's ox is Christ. Adjoining those Gospel writers is the idea...
...Editor. Waldo David Frank celebrated his forty-first birthday Aug. 25 by making more plans for presenting South American literature to the U. S. in small doses. Ten or more books of which this is the first, are to appear and bring the best from Brazil, Peru, Chile, and others, culled by him, edited by him. Since leaving Yale in 1911 with B.A., M.A. and Phi Beta Kappa key, he has applied his erratic literary ability to many matters. With the publication of Virgin Spain in 1926 his name as a Spanish authority was made, his interest in things Spanish...