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...book begins with the end of the Golden Day of Emerson, Thoreau, and Melville, and the start of the new world of industrialism brought to a sudden birth by the Civil War. How was this new world to be interpreted in literature, and who was to do it? One by one the post-war men of letters are held up for scrutiny and found wanting. Each failed to realize the task before him, or realizing it, fled from it. The sectionalists, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Eggleston and Cable, did not comprehend the whole. The fugitives, Sarah, Orne Jewett, Henry James...
...race, nosed out John A. Carley '36 by a margin of a scant two feet. Farley got away to a poor start, but soon made up the ground he had lost: 15 yards from the finish he was leading by a quarter of a length, when Ames, in a sudden sprint, shot ahead to take the race. The time was 3 minutes, 45 seconds...
...steady decline in the number of paralysis cases in Massachusetts. The worst epidemic in the history of the Paralysis Commission was in 1916, with 1,927 cases reported in Massachusetts. This number steadily decreased until 1919, when only 66 cases were reported. The next year, there was a sudden jump to 693, but this again showed a marked drop over a period of years. In 1927, another serious epidemic swept through Massachusetts, with a total of 1,195 cases being recorded, and again in 1931, when the figures reached 1,429. The lowest year was in 1932, with only...
Much attention was attracted to the Japanese style of swimming at the recent Olympic games, held in Los Angeles during the summer of 1932. At that time, the Nippon team, a hitherto rather mediocre squad, showed a sudden speed and stamina which swept all opposition before it and gained the swimming crown for the Japanese...
...sudden capture of the national attention by humanism in the year 1930," says Professor Mercier, "might at first seem strange." Strange, but not unprecedented. To a large section of the national attention, the New Humanism was only one more new doctrine in a long train--transcendentalism, pragmatism, New Thought, Christian Science--which had suddenly captured in turn various intellectual layers of the popular imagination. The national attention which humanism captured probably grasped little more of it than the fact that it was something earnestly preached by Irving Babbitt which had a great deal to say against Rousseau, and that...