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...this half year, Professor Rosenstock-Hussy is giving two courses open to undergraduates, History 73 and 74 on German Constitutional History from Otto the Great to Charles V and on German Constitutional Documents in their Cultural Setting; also a Seminary, Philosophy 20, in which he will work out a comparison between Hegel's ideas of the philosophy of history and Goothe's. Undergraduate students of history are lucky in their chance to work with a man of such experience of life, such democratic ideals, such a stirring intellectual temperament. Graduate students of history and of philosophy will find in Philosophy...
...Lodge's grandson may have are set off to poor advantage by the picture. A tedious hyperbole in which Director Josef von Sternberg achieved the improbable feat of burying Marlene Dietrich in a welter of plaster-of-paris gargoyles and galloping cossacks, it seems all the more inadequate by comparison with Elizabeth Bergner's Catherine the Great...
...page collection of Prayers for Self and Society written by Rev. James Myers, Industrial Secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, and published by the Y. M. C. A.'s General Board. Whether the result was any better than "extemporized mediocrity" was a matter of opinion but certainly no comparison could be made with the stately rhetoric of the Book of Common Prayer or the King James Bible...
...rival newshawks complain that at the scene they can see nothing but Post-Dispatch men. The importance of last week's changes to the Post-Dispatch itself was not easy to predict. The paper has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Among the qualities that have justified that comparison are its intelligence, its liberalism, its independence. On the strength of its own information it boldly denied the false Armistice of 1918 while almost every other paper in the land was carrying it as fact. These qualities and the loyalty that they inspire in the Post-Dispatch's staff...
...with an ingenious, original and striking plot if he had been able to think of them." But Maugham gives Chekhov his due: "I do not know that anyone . . . has so poignantly been able to represent spirit communing with spirit. It is this that makes one feel that Maupassant, in comparison, is obvious and vulgar...