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...emphasizing the latter point Professor Frankfurter has done a service to the public and to the cause of the administration of justice. People in general naturally have so little knowledge of the details of legal practice that they are apt to misunderstand the scope of a court's power and consequently the effect of its decision. Much unwarranted criticism of the courts is apt to be the result. The effect of Professor Frankfurter's study from the standpoint of the lawyer is to focus attention on the practically unlimited discretion of the trial judge in Massachusetts on matters which vitally...
Naturally, a book of this scope has its deficiencies. For example, though containing an estimate of Henry Adams's historical philosophy, the equally significant work of Brooks on Adams is neglected. One feels a lack of understanding in the author's treatment of Poe, and also a hint of the unpractical--despite his appreciation of genuine scientific achievement--in his dismissal of Upton Sinclair's "Industrial Republic" as too utilitarian. For transcendentalism alone as a living force is found wanting by the same canons with which Mr. Mumford condemned the humanism of the Renaissance--it failed to affect the great...
Naturally any broadening of scope must be recognized as a definite asset. In attempting to form a student body which will be really representative Harvard is merely carrying one step further the ideals on which she was originally founded. Any university aiming to serve no particular section but the entire country must needs enforce limits to her own enrollment. This Harvard has done. The Associated Club report would indicate that she is on the way to fulfilling her final...
...Economics, and one in the specific field of concentration chosen for the degree. As there was then no general examination in History, and the department did not wish to encourage too great specialization on the part of the students, the specific fields were made quite broad in their scope...
...American Mercury was founded in 1924 to give Editor Mencken scope for his vituperation of the U. S. scene. He and Drama Critic George Jean Nathan had become financially comfortable, not through Smart Set which they edited with more thought than thanks, but through two little aphrodisiacs, La Parisienne and Saucy Stories, founded for revenge and sold at fat profits. The revenge was upon society...