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...difficult to see that this confusion results from a failure to distinguish between an investigation of particular conditions at Norfolk, which would have fallen to the province of Commissioner Dillon, and a general penal investigation, whose outcome belongs to Mr. Dillon's superior. Governor Ely is at fault in not having made this distinction, in giving carte blanche to Mr. Hurley and then in refusing to face the implications which that carte blanche contained. whatever adjustment he may make must be a rough adjustment, for particular and general issues must be differently handled, and their fusion in the Auditor...
...situation is not primarily the fault of those in charge of the course; but is due rather to a confusion of motives and needs resulting from the mingling of graduates and undergraduates. The Chaucerian philology and grammar and scholarship which is necessary to the graduate kills the beginner's pleasure in the poetry. One of the best means of fulfilling the requirement of the English Department for one course in Pre-Shakespearian literature is a year of Chaucer. There are already graduate courses in the field, for example, English 4 (Middle English: Language and Literature from...
There is the further fault that the six important figures are studied not in relation to the history of thought or as the products of their eras, but too much as individual, isolated minds. In attempting to understand the significance of a man's thought one must know something of the period and environment which that thought reflects. But only the sketchiest historical background is given in the lectures and there is none in the reading...
...created the above lies myself, but if you want an absolutely authentic lie which provoked an international incident take the one the Chinese told about the Emperor of Japan. They said it was his fault that the Empress didn't have a son for so long. The Japanese said it was her fault and they ought to know. Anyhow Japanese anger at this widely printed Chinese lie was one of the things which provoked the Japanese attack on Shanghai. I was there and I know...
...celluloid started. Among these were "Lysistrata," "The Affairs of Anatol," "The Camel Through The Needle's Eye," and "John Ferguson." Unfortunately it cannot be said that either the Hopkins or the Hepburn reputation will be greatly increased by their present reappearances on the stage. In the first case, the fault lies mainly with the vehicle; with Katharine Hepburn one is inclined to say that it goes deeper...