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...great merit in "project" studies as advocated by Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn and others-assigning to underclassmen single historic episodes -perhaps the Greek civilization in the freshman year, and the 19th Century U. S. for sophomores- and helping them to take it to bits, see how, why and whither it worked. Dr. Meiklejohn has proposed the "project" for small colleges. Dr. Frank indorsed the plan for a large university because, "unless with decent promptness we bring a fresh coherence and fruitful comprehensiveness into . . . freshman and sophomore years of our colleges of liberal arts, the junior-college movement! may proceed...
...GREAT VALLEY?Mary Johnston?Little, Brown ($2). Here is one of the biggest canvases of the year, a high and deep wilderness panorama, the Great Valley or Shenando Country?New Virginia, as they called it, whither John Selkirk came with his family to have the God of his Scotch fathers in peace. Historical fidelity and great narrative sweep are executive abilities of the author, who came to fame in 1900 with To Have and to Hold, and last year scored with another novel of early Virginia, The Slave Ship...
Feng and Wu. Super-Tuchun Feng, who has dominated Peking since he traitorously seized it from Wu (TIME, Nov. 3, 1924), was last week either at Urga, Mongolia, whither he had fled; or he had sneaked back over 1,000 miles to Peking and was waiting there in secret to dicker with Wu, when the latter should arrive from a place unstated...
Overwhelmed with a profusion of attractive lectures today, I shall make no attempt to pick or chose before hand, but shall wander whither chance may lead me. Here are the leading possibilities...
...Titanic disaster aroused the nations to institute an annual patrol from April to July along the northern steamer lanes, whither the icebergs float after they break from their Greenland glaciers. The U. S. took up the burden, many nations sharing the expense. So efficient has been this search for and report of wandering bergs that not a life has been lost since the patrol...