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...Einstein would again spend several weeks there, beginning some time in December. His visit is to factualize by more measurements of nebulae speeds his present theory that the Universe has been expanding-as he told a popular Berlin audience last week-for ten billion years, "quite a tidy bit of time...
Such stories are amusing and a bit startling but the article loses force through its aura of unsubstantiated generalization. The condemnation does not hold for all men who study abroad; many universities, especially the larger institutions, are strict in their selection of scholarship men, and the results justify such a course. But Mr. Axelgaard's investigation is nonetheless valuable. Scholarship grants should obviously not be bestowed on incompetents like Sykes. That they are is due largely to the preposterous trust that America reposes in education, especially foreign education. In turning the sharp light of his wit upon such individual cases...
...possesses the domineering thick contralto of the Savoy tradition; and her account to her daughter Casilda of how she "tamed your great progenitor at last" is more kittenish than relentless as it should be. As for Casilda, she sings too noisily, particularly in "There Was a Time," a delicious bit of Victorian sentimentalism that should be dealt with tenderly...
...tabby. Labor Leader "Uncle" Arthur Henderson tried to keep the Party on its well-worn track of merely Talking Socialism. "Labor must be definitely international in its outlook," he orated vaguely. "The National Government is Toryism without disguise. . . . There is need for an advance toward Socialism. . . ." Taking this bit in their teeth, the delegates galloped, bolted. While Leader Henderson begged and pleaded for "caution" the Congress ignored him, cheered to the echo a "labor intellectual," Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (onetime President of the Board of Education) who proposed to block the possibility that men like Arthur Henderson (onetime Foreign Secretary...
...book is well written and scholarly. The author sentimentalizes a bit too much over Dorothy, and perhaps makes her out a little too ideal, thereby taking away some of the force and strength in her character. But aside from these defects, as a biography and as a picture of life, it is excellent; and it proves an aid in the understanding of the poetry and character of William, her brother, and Coleridge, her friend...