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There is one further profit to be had from this scheme. The tutor theoretically, is the one agent in the educational outfit who can, through his personal contact encourage interest in the better sort of scholarship and eventually lessen the false emphasis on marks. At present, that power remains mere theory. In our machine, the tutor is simply an accessory; the lecture system, with frequent examinations, is the framework, to which he has to attach himself as best be may. In England, on the contrary, he is one of the drive-wheels, the only person to whom the student...
...SUPREME COURT IN UNITED STATES HISTORY-Charles Warren- Little Brown. The Supreme Court of the United States is probably the most remarkable legal institution in the world. It is something just a shade more than a governing body. It is a sort of super-Senate, defining the conditions under which government functions. Mr. Warren's is the first adequate history of that unique body. He is a distinguished legal scholar. Most of all, as Assistant District Attorney during the Wilson administration, he had an unexcelled opportunity to see the Supreme Court at work and to gain a practical first...
...city of the Living Buddha. From Urga, which was also serving at the time as headquarters for Baron Ungern's campaign to stir up the ancient race of Jenghis Khan against the Bolsheviki, he made his way through Manchuria and thence to Peking and safety. It is the wildest sort of an Odyssey--the more powerful because of the deadly earnestness and precision with which it is told, and because of the fact that it is not half legend, but actual truth...
...then no one has claimed that "It Is the Law" can approach "The Bat" or "The Thirteenth Chair" in cleverness and finesse. "Bulldog Drummond" is more in its line. Albert Woodruff, as the villain fills us with the same sort of creepy horror that the tomb-like doctor does in the last-named play. Everyone shudders at a man who can make his pulse stop beating at will or who goes into a murderous fit at the sight of a pair of fire-tongs or can conceive and carry out such a devilish scheme of vengeance as this neo-maniac...
GOING-TO-THE SUN-Vachel Lindsay-Appleton ($1.75). Mr. Lindsay is not crazy. But in the very excited intensity of his sanity there is a sort of madness. His verse shouts and capers in a boisterous exuberance of imagination. He flings images at you-talking flowers, magic roosters " that no storm can tame," amiable mountain cats, comets. The longest and most flaming of all these poems is called So Much the Worse for Boston...