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...college research, while in keeping with the advance of modern science, is fast breaking up what is left of the homogeneity of the university of today. Moreover, it does not seem as if the problem of modern research was being administered in as efficient way as possible. In the welter of new chairs of various sciences which are being founded in the universities of the country, there are bound to be many duplications. Among graduate schools specializing in certain fields there are many whose aims and methods of teaching are the same, yet they are scattered throughout the country...
...eighth novel, Robert Nathan makes gentle fun of the discrepancy between Christian faith and Christian observation. His hero Levy, yearning after the Christ, changes his name to Lewis. Crossing the River Jordan he arrives, not in the land of milk and honey, but in a welter of May parties, prejudices, Mother's days, fishings, bathings-a whole satirically tinted landscape of Gentile normalities. Lonely, without angels, relatives or the Christ, Lewis quits this stupid paradise, flings himself into the river, returns to the Bread of Life. Author Nathan's mysticism is mischievous, grace ful-perhaps too much...
There was a time when one could laugh at the smug hypocrisy of the Boston censors, but it becomes almost necessary to "view with alarm" a movement which threatens to wipe out the lawful study of a whole field of literature. In the welter of material which has appeared on the subject vilifying the censors, the one thing that has been overlooked is the possibility of disclosing an insidious publishers lobby. All books printed in a foreign language are admitted duty free into the country and they may sometimes compete with American publications and thus reduce the per'capita spendings...
Chippies. Among the more uncouth of the year's dramas was this tale of a girl's grim progress from an Ohio village to the bed of a Cleveland beer-runner. Out of a welter of cheap wheezes and smudgy local color comes the 'legger's cryptic decision to marry the girl. Thus made respectable, they return to Ohio, to find the coffin of the girl's tortured mother in the dim sitting room. Cullen Landis played the 'legger without retrieving the general exhibition of bad theatre and worse taste...
...election welter and hubbub of British politics the figure of bob-haired David Lloyd George grows daily clearer. Sunk into comparative obscurity six months ago, his theatrically effective plans for the relief of unemployment (TIME, March 11) may win enough seats for the despised Liberals to give them the balance of power in parliamentary debates between Conservatives and Laborites, both numerically more potent...