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Although the book centers on the "underlying preconceptions of eighteenth century thought" It concludes an illuminating, though necessarily sketchy comparison of the "climates of opinion" of the Middle Ages, the Age of the French Revolution, and today. In making this comparison Professor Becker suggests a whole philosophy of history. "Are we to suppose that the Russian Revolution of the twentieth century, like the French Revolution of the eighteenth, is but another stage in the progress of mankind toward perfection? Or should we think, with Marcus Aurelius, that the man of forty years if he have a grain of sense...
...balance between wholesale and retail prices. ". . . Some prices ought to go down; some ought to go up. Most obviously all retail prices have resisted decline in comparison with wholesale prices. But certain groups are worse offenders-for instance, public utility rates. . . . A little statesmanlike denunciation of retailers and public utility concerns might do something. Devices like the Domestic Allotment plan for agriculture ought to be really effective on the other side...
...that the talking moving picture might be used more extensively in science lectures to advantage. Based on a study of public school students the report reveals that pupils who had received their instruction from films had better results than those who had studied from their text-books. That a comparison was not made between results of college students who had seen lecture table experiments and those who had viewed the same experiments in a moving picture is regrettable; for there is reason to believe that a more wide-spread use of films in certain courses would be advantageous...
...Council have been drastically curtailed, a shrinkage which in turn is affecting the work of the Council, and the drawing up of the annual budget. Figures in the possession of Hamilton Young '33, treasurer, indicate that the amount of pledges paid in to date totals only $5461, in comparison with a sum of $6723 that had been paid in last year at this time. The amount of pledges outstanding totals $3200 at the present time...
When the audience at Manhattan's Belasco Theatre one night this week threw away programs, reached for hats & coats and made for the doors, neither spectators nor reviewers were quite sure how good a play they had seen. Criticism is the wife of Comparison, and there never was a play like this one on Broadway. But one thing is certain. No one will soon forget Katharine Cornell's Lucrece...