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...three sections on "The Humanities," "The Social Studies," and "The Natural Sciences," which have replaced the traditional graveyard of unrecognizable Faculty photos are the high spots of the volume. These sections, illustrated with well-chosen candid shots of teachers in the fields, and each written by an outstanding Faculty member, serve to place a Harvard education in its social and intellectual context. Professor F. O. Matthiesscu's article on the value of the Humanities in a world at war should make the Album required reading for every American college student and instructor...
...Army last week received a few well-chosen hard words from what is practically its own house organ. The weekly Army and Navy Register, potent service publication, complained: "Staff officers all too often are lacking in concrete knowledge of what troop duty really is, and they issue impractical orders because they do not know what it takes to get things done." Naming no names, the Register cited instances...
Folk Songs of the U.S.S.R. (Red Army Chorus. Pyatnitzky Chorus, soloists; Keynote; 8 sides). Some of the deep feeling, childish simplicity and vein of fatalism of the Russian people shines through these well-chosen songs, which include Stepan Razin, tale of the Slavic Robin Hood. But the recordings, made in the U.S.S.R., are fuzzily inadequate...
...history voted financial assistance to the mother Church of England. Sent by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Rev. Noel Baring Hudson asked aid for Britain's war-crippled missions, called World War II "a hell-sent opportunity for more effective Christian work in all nations." A well-chosen emissary was slight, vigorous Bishop Hudson, secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, which nurtured Anglicanism in this country all through the colonial period. In part payment for that spiritual debt, General Convention promptly upped an appropriation for help to British missions from a tentative...
Report. Evenly divided between discussion of Fascists and Communists, made up of 15,000 well-chosen words, the report had not a line to justify the hell & damnation that preceded it. It began: "Every modern democratic nation is confronted by two pressing problems. The first is the preservation of the constitutional liberties which their people have gained through the years of struggle, the second is the problem of adjusting their economic life to the difficulties of the machine age. . . ." Although rival groups seek power and influence by exploiting economic distress, attempting to undermine democracy, main problem in combating them...