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...Then the alert Globe reported a dark horse and scored another "beat." The Globe reported, the Harvard Corporation nominated, and the Harvard Overseers were sure to accept, James Bryant ("Jim") Conant, 40, as Harvard's 25th president. The choice reflected a decision in favor of oldtime. hard-driving intellect over new style business efficiency. James Conant is one of his country's foremost organic chemists. Born in Dorchester, Mass., son of an able wood-engraver, he took his Harvard A. B. (Class of 1914) in three years, magna cum laude. While taking...
...countrymen. But battles palled, he was not amused. So he built Sanssouci, which in its Baroque lushness reflected his Northern, Germanic, emotional temperament; he became the patron of Bach, whose rich music fitted his rich taste; he imported Voltaire, who satisfied the needs of his rational, concise, superficial intellect; he tempted from France and Austria the most beautiful dancers of Europe to be his favorites and paramours...
...eager novitiate the subtleties of construction--if one can speak with impunity of the subtleties of St. Paul's. Thus Mr. Adams could have presented his public with a competent Baedeker which is greatly needed by the novitiate. There is much in this sensitive, keen, and penetrating intellect that requires enlightenment. Burdened from youth with the consciousness of generations and of the necessities of success, Henry Adams drifted, until old age quieted, but did not satisfy him, in search, not of eternal verity and art, but power. As a young man he swayed on his intellectual toes between polities, literature...
...denied membership, while some of those admitted as undergraduates failed to measure up under the severe test of independent initiative and originality offered by tutorial work and honors theses. Such a system is a relic of the days when courses offered the only field in which the application of intellect and effort could be measured. The University recognized the existence of a better test years ago, and accordingly shifted the requirements for honor degrees to conspicuous achievement in Divisional examinations and honors theses. Phi Beta Kappa, with a conservatism born of long tradition, has until now refused to read...
Pirandello enjoys sitting next to strangers at his plays, hearing them confess bewilderment over "what it means." Says he: "People say that my drama is obscure and they call it cerebral drama. . . . One of the novelties that I have given to modern drama consists in converting the intellect into passion...