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Once upon a time there was an eminent mathematician named Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who laid down his compasses and took up his pen. Thereat all children rejoiced, for they were given Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
"Charles William Eliot found Harvard a select little New England college," declared Professor C. T. Copeland yesterday. "After forty years he left it the most important seat of learning in the Western Hemisphere. In the work of transformation he had the help of well-known scholars and administrators, eminent among...
THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE?Edwin Arlington Robinson?Macmillan ($125). The narrative of Fernando Nash, a musician, is in blank verse. He died in the spirit and, having tasted the uttermost of disillusion and defeat, is 'born again?before he dies in the flesh?to such a vision of glory...
Another eminent American has looked at his world and has exalted the fascinating story of these United States in a popular "collective biography" of the American people. The American Viewpoint Society is sponsor for a series of three "American viewpoint" publications of which this is one, the others being "We...
The writer of "From a Graduate's Window" goes on to say that with the struggle for entrance to the University intensified to an unprecedented extent by the limitation of numbers, the prospect "is not encouraging for those Harvard men who know that their sons are not pre-eminent in...