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...ISLAND WITHIN- Ludwig Lewisohn-Harpers ($2.50). The author, a Jew, was evidently in a sweat of fervor when he wrote this novel. He cries out in his preface: "Then, in God's name, let us tell wiser, broader, deeper stories- stories with morals more significant and rich. . . . Let us recover, if possible, something of an epic note. To do that there is no need of high-flown words or violent actions. Only a constant sense of the streaming generations, of the processes of historic change, of the true character of man's magnificent and tragic adventure between earth...
...chronic organizer, he had propounded an efficient, unified student government, and drafted a constitution. The small campus boiled with political fervor, causing President David Starr Jordan to remark: "I wonder if I'm not presiding over a young Tammany Hall." The two parties were an "aristocratic" fraternity element v. a "barbarian" element led by the constitution-writer's friends. Hoover was reluctant to run for an office himself, but they insisted he was their strongest candidate for the important post of treasurer. Finally he said, "Well, perhaps I can swing it." Swing...
Smack! With childish fervor, His Majesty bestowed a kiss of welcome. He now waited for it to be returned. He continued to wait. Prince Peter, bonny and button-round eyed, gazed vaguely around, oblivious of what was required, but beginning to be slightly concerned about his mother...
Cynical expressions of the ironic variations of human behavior are surely less sound than statistics derived from oft-demonstrated laws of genetics. Missionaries must have good health, energy, moral fervor, the spirit of adventure; hence their sons are likely to have the same. College professors must be morally and intellectually sound; their sons are likely to be so. A minister's calling brings him, Dr. Huntington pointed out, into contact with high-grade women, one of whom he is likely to marry. Said Dr. Huntington: "I may be prejudiced, but I am inclined to think that ministers get better...
...Russell displayed a glowing fervor while he endeavored to show the intensity of the patriotism of the Irish poets whose works he had just been reading to a large audience. The lecture was originally scheduled to be given in Emerson D, but the capacity of that room proving too small for the crowd, it was forced to be adjourned to the New Lecture Hall...