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...respect. And when he finds "its point of view original and the presentation not only instructive but simulative of thought," most Harvard men will find the book interesting. To erudite readers who search their pages for inaccuracies Professor Moore sounds a warning that "in a work of such wide scope the critical reader will often discover in particulars of fact or of interpretation occasion for doubt or dissent." Bertrand Russell in his review of the book in the New York Nation for January 23 of this year, has drawn up a list of such errors with undue irony, and with...
...first place, there was no effective machinery to enforce the observance of the clauses written into the treaties, and in the second place the larger powers, like Austria-Hungary and Russia, had themselves large minorities which were beyond the scope of international interference. In so far as these minorities belonged racially to other independent states they became the objects of irredentist agitations, that is to say efforts were made to arouse in them a national consciousness and to prepare them for eventual annexation to the mother country. In most instances the larger powers replied to these tactics by various measures...
...ANTHOLOGY or WORLD POETRY-Edited by Mark Van Doren-Simon & Schuster ($5). Discrimination as well as scope is in this fine piece of editing. The authors range from Li Tai-po to Sappho and Goethe; the translators from Swinburne to Edwin Arlington Robinson...
...will find his writings a small but particularly illuminating glimpse of the man and of the subjects to which he gave his life. Those who had the good fortune to be his intimates will cherish a host of memories of expansive evenings when his singular mind, Greek in its scope and freedom from bias, illuminated and gave new value to a world of ideas...
There were few honors in his profession that Professor Pray had not attained at one stage or another of his career. The list of institutes and societies of which he was an active member is world-wide in its scope and includes as perhaps his greatest distinction the American Academy in Rome, of which he was for five years trustee and executive member. Professor Pray also took a prominent part in the development of the science of city planning that has grown to such importance during recent years...