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...school which Dr. Ely was launching last week lives up to its founder's purposes, William Brewster Ely and his generation will also have a far better chance than college students of today to learn about the thing that has been Dr. Ely's intellectual passion for more than 50 years. Of his land school, Dr. Ely said last week: "It is something epoch-making." To understand what he meant it is necessary to have some conception of what land-Land whence taxes come, Land on which houses are built. Land which produces things-has meant...
Author Vardis Fisher is working on the next volume, to be called Passion Spins the Plot...
...Sugar soured the nature of El Gallo. While Cuba remained prosperous no one objected violently to President Machado's habit of lining his pockets with a little of every money-making concern on the island. His extravagant interest in ladies was excused as Latin temperament, as was his passion for bloody and immediate vengeance. But Cuba's prosperity depends on sugar and sugar crashed long before Wall Street. Following several recoveries and relapses after its first crash in 1921, sugar collapsed completely in 1930. The money that he so ardently desired could only be collected from the Government...
GREAT CIRCLE-Conrad Aiken-Scrib- ner ($2). Though Author Aiken takes his title from geometry (great circle: a circle on the surface of a sphere, whose plane passes through the centre of the sphere), his motto from Elizabethan John Marston ("O frantick, fond, pathetick passion! Is't possible such sensuall action should clip the wings of contemplation? . . . Fie, can our soule be underling to such a vile con-troule?") and his subject from everyday life (a deceived husband), yet his method is modern, cinematic, "stream-of-consciousness." Poet of involved psychological states, he is usually not at his best...
...individual and circumstance to be found in a big modern university. The book's coherence suffers from its multiplicity of interests and characters which mingle but never really meet. What story there is is held together by the reappearing career of one Epes Todd, an undergraduate whose passion for football is gradually sublimated into books, redirected into a love affair. Harvard indifference ("a term never used at Harvard"), the baby deans, the Crimson, the Widener Library, athletes, tutors, students, socialites, exams, waiters-on-table, the clubs, lectures, Harvard's golden mean ("Three...