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...handful of Stevensons and a score of Bertrand Russells Americans may seem no more than parts of an unnatural existence that works like a Ford factory, and although the majority of previous visitors have agreed that the American college is guilty of complicity in this great stifling plot, Mr. Benn denies that the training at Harvard either hammers out a conventional type or ignores the necessities of existence in a common sense world...
...College, which is distinguished from the University as being for undergraduates, is located in a plot of ground about three blocks square, surrounded on two sides by a low wooden fence...
...statement delivered in the fire of oratory may be excused, but not so the essentially faulty idea of the reverent doctor. Fair example of a teacher in the American college may be found at Harvard. If the lecturer has the intention of deceiving the student, certainly the plot has been skillfully concealed. Scholars may reach conclusions which are at odds with the teachings of the church, but the blame does not rest with the professor. The student forms his own beliefs...
...that the reader would for very long be kept in doubt because whatever merits this detective tale night possess plausibility is not one of them. Still it compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood on the living room carpet and all that sort of thing...
...efforts--with the aid of his little address book--to find one at every place his ship drops anchor. Obviously, this quest, made fruitless by the activities of another sailor who precedes him by a day or so in each port of call, does not make for unity of plot. In fact the picture is a series of episodes admirably hung together...