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...History, will speak on the question, "Should the U. S. Help England in China?" in the fifth of The Harvard Guardian's fall series of fifteen-minute radio programs over Station WAAB and the Colonial network at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, November 1. Fairbank will review the background of the present situation in the Far East and discuss America's position and interests...
Unquestionably the student who is of outstanding ability, regardless of his secondary school background of training, emerges in top position in college. For the man of lower standing the test would be the most valuable. Through the practice of this theory, a far more just standard of judging students would be reached. Entrance examinations would of course be retained but would be given in this combined form. Although the translation of the theory into actual college entrance policy would require a general reorganization of the present system, it is an experiment well worth testing...
...brilliant instability of his subject's period, Author Jones adopts the method of Guedalla and Strachey, devoting much space to contemporary modes and fashions, interspersing brisk epigrammatic surveys of political movements, quoting newspapers, hotel menus indiscriminately, in the effort to keep not only his subject but his background alive in the reader's mind. The method adds sparkle but leads to trivia (example: Moore's "duel" with the Reviewer Jeffrey which, interrupted by the police, ended in Bow Street station, and gave rise to malicious rumors that the pistols hadn't been loaded anyway...
...anything to brag about. In fact, with its post-Civil War collection of desperate Southern aristocrats, filibusterers and assorted bad men, their plots and generally seditious hell-raising, Texas looked like just the sort of a place for another rebellion to cut loose. Against this hot-blooded, nearly forgotten background, Texas-born U. S. Marine Major John W. Thomason Jr. (Fix Bayonets!, Jeb Stuart), grandson of Longstreet's Chief of Staff, spins the yarn of Gone to Texas, a pleasant, fast-moving romance about an unpleasant, fast-moving period of U. S. history. Readers will like Author Thomason...
...dramatization of the recent (1919-35) changes in Navajo Indian life. The Enemy Gods follows the general theme of Author La Farge's previous Indian fiction: the poor results of trying to adapt Indians to white wavs. The variation this time is a more ambitious social and political background. On the literary side the novel's chief failings appear at those points where the anthropologist, the sociologist and the novelist could not get together...