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...alteration of this nature now seems advisable in the case of the tutorial work for the sophomore year. The admitted purpose of the sophomore tutorial work is to present a comprehensive picture of the field, to give the student a background for the specialized junior and senior work treated in this panoramic study. Furthermore, the last fact suggests the possibility of holding the customary tutorial conferences during the sophomore year not individually with the tutee, but rather with small groups of tutees, each group containing, say two or three men. The tutors would select men of about the same ability...
Professor Babbitt is a scholar of tremendous erudition; he has read, roughly, everything. Be it Buddha, Coleridge, or Sinclair Lewis's last novel, it is all grist to his mill. The name of the course makes no difference; were it to be "A Study of the Literary Background of 'Alice in Wonderland'," Professor Babbitt would yet find in this work his favorities--the higher will, the ethical imagination, the central control making for decency and humility, the star of Burke, the Christian and the gentleman, and the wisdom of the ages--set against his villains--what one is tempted...
INTIMATE MEMORIES: BACKGROUND-Mabel Dodge Luhan-Harcourt, Brace...
Authoress Scott likes a big canvas. In Migrations and The Wave, she filled a panoramic picture of the Civil War with hundreds of figures, a meticulously colorful background. A Calendar of Sin made No. 3 of her U. S. historical series. Eva Gay is not quite so big (only 799 pages), but its figures are few, its background so subdued that attention is glaringly focused on the three main characters. Many a wearied reader will not be attentive to the bitter...
...Churches have found the Depression an admirable background for a vigorous renewal of their age-old attacks on Mammon. But only the Roman Catholic Church may be said to have an official attitude on "Economics." This attitude, based on Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), the Statesman-Pope, Pius XI, has elaborated in many a pronouncement. Denouncing Communism, rejecting Socialism, chiding Capitalism, finding Syndicalism (the Fascist type of government-in-business) too powerfully concentrated, Pius XI has come out for: minimum wage laws; old-age pensions; private property, even a "modest fortune" for workers; government regulation of business...