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Your news story was merely erroneous; your editorial was malicious. There are, no doubt, reasonable objections to the new plan for oral examinations. But the statement that it is a plan of the "shrinking violets among the faculty" to replace "petty inferiority complexes" with "true professorial pomposity" itself "smacks of...
Mr. Chesterton feels that the system of thought which Thomas Aquinas brought to its highest level has a good deal to say to the modern man. He has not been bullied out of his position by scornful a priori; he realizes that the only defense of Thomas Aquinas is in...
Perhaps the important thing that Mr. Wallace has to say is his virtual confession that nineteenth century liberalism along with its dominant idea, freedom of expression, will have to be abandoned; he says that we must submit to "a completely army-like, nationalist discipline even in peace time," and this...
Mr. Wallace by his own confession is not in sympathy with these trends which be believes to be inevitable; as a liberal be must resent the collapse of the system of liberal capitalism. But there is nothing that can be done about it and while the methods which he advocates...
THE YOUNG MANHOOD OF STUDS LONIGAN-James T. Farrell-Vanguard ($2.50). Author Farrell is already a little out of date. Though brutally realistic novels with tough slum heroes will doubtless continue to be written, their day is waning with the reading public. Of their departing kind The Young Manhood of...