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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certain Harvard students as to the merits of the Pilgrim Fathers. To settle this weighty question once and for all, and also to pass verdict on the passive role of the Plymouth Rock in the establishment of Boston society, a British Debating Team, composed of former members of English colleges, now at Harvard, and a Radcliffe College team are to clash tonight in Agassiz Hall, Radcliffe, at 8.15 o'clock in a bitter dispute. The question is: "Resolved, That it would have been better if the Plymouth Rock had landed on the Pilgrim Fathers, rather than the Pilgrim Fathers...
...weak-kneed Dauphin whom Joan of Arc crowned. Charles turned out better as a king than he had been as a Dauphin; but when his impatient son Louis (he led two rebellions against his father) came to the throne, at 38, he found France still disunited, Paris disloyal, the English threatening, and such powerful nobles as the Duke of Burgundy openly his enemies. The whole kingdom was exhausted by the Hundred Years' War. Fertile regions were wastelands; brigandage, starvation, lawlessness were everywhere...
Author McClinchey knows the Ojibways and likes them, lives part of every year on the island which is her novel's scene. Born in Sault Ste. Marie (the "Soo") she became a school teacher there, now teaches in the English Department of Central State Teachers College (summer session). Reserved, hard to get acquainted with, Author McClinchey feels natural in the woods, is an expert canoeist, and can handle a launch in a heavy sea. Joe Pete, her first novel, is the Christmas choice of the Book League of America...
...island. When her story ends, she has apparently lost her freedom but attained respectability by a morganatic marriage to a Middle-European prince. But between these two points the huntress of men has had good hunting: Diplomat Count Münsterberg, Millionaire Scherer, simple-minded Wilhelm, Bolshevik Kyril Sergeivitch, English Soldier Felix...
Emil Ludwig is chiefly famed for biographies (Napoleon, Bismarck, The Son of Man, July '14); Diana is his first novel to be translated into English...