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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer constructive criticism. The criticism I would accept with greater alacrity if it were better fortified with accurate factual and statistical data. Almost every statement made in the editorial appears to me to be erroneous or misleading. Marriott's Revolution of 1848 was in no sense a prescribed book, and every member of--the course was free to read something else on the same subject. Now that I know that all members of the course were eager to read this particular work I appreciate the necessity of getting additional copies for the library. Since there has never been a complaint...
...flagrant offender in this regard has been History 2, covering during the first half year the period from the French Revolution to the fall of the Second Empire. The assignment for the December Hour consisted of reading from relevant parts of a half dozen books. One strongly recommended for the examination was Marriot's "Revolution of 1848", a single copy of which was placed at the desk in the Reading Room a week before. Assuming a constant demand for the book, it could be used for roughly 300 hours during the three weeks notice given. With approximately...
Professor Dewing has written a book on the Financial Policy of Corporations which is so formidable that it may scare off the average undergraduate who does not know that Professor Dewing's lecture delivery is one of the least puzzling in the College. Most undergraduates on the first day of the course look wildly around for the nearest exit, convinced that they have wandered into a philosophy lecture. Bailing his trap with a summary of the corporation from Rome to the present day. Professor Dewing has the class following him, at a distance of several sea leagues, by the third...
...WHAT YOU WILL-Aldous Huxley-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In this book of essays Author Huxley writes about philosophers and their asininity; idealists; fashions in love; Baudelaire; how differently Wordsworth would have felt about Nature if he had visited the tropics. He accuses Swift of the modern sin against the Holy Ghost, sentimentality: "If Swift were alive today, he would be the adored, the baroneted, the Order-of-Merited author, not of Gulliver, not of The Tale of a Tub, not of the Directions to Servants, but of A Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable...
Poet Jeffers is more than a pessimist; he is a writer of tragedies. The two long poems in this book, Dear Judas and The Loving Shepherdess, are different statements of the same idea: "You see men walking and they seem to be free but look at their faces, they're caught." The first poem is Jeffers' version of the Passion Play, with Judas cast in a major role. The second tells the story of Clare Walker, leading her dwindling flock of sheep along the California coast toward the day when her baby will be born and she will die. Says...