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There arose a distinguished group of portraitists of the primitive mind-Frazer, Sumner & Keller, Malinowski, Boas. One of these was Lucien Levy-Bruhl, longtime professor of the University of Paris, who published his first noteworthy treatise in 1884, followed by Primitive Mentality, How Natives Think, The "Soul" of the Primitive. Last week from the pen of Professor Levy-Bruhl, 78, appeared Primitives and the Supernatural,* a meaty summary of how the sons of the wilderness regard the unseen powers, benign and malevolent, that preoccupy virtually every hour of every day of their lives...
...years, will find themselves in an historical wonderland in which all familiar scenes and landmarks have been changed or swept away, surrounded by old historic facts in strange and novel dress, by new facts of whose existence they did not dream, by famed figures, from Lincoln to Charles Sumner, so disguised as to be almost unrecognizable. They will find that the Civil War lasted not four years, but 20; that it was decided, not by superior military strength or strategy, but by a general strike; that the era of carpetbag rule in the South, far from being a period...
...Black Reconstruction, Negro-freeing Lincoln is overshadowed by Negro-loving Thaddeus Stevens. Grant stands out as less impressive than an ex-slave abolitionist named Douglass, and a crowd of strangers shoulders familiar figures from the scene. If the book has a personal hero, it is Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who talked much of the Negro in the Senate but refused to hobnob socially with him outside. Yet if readers remain immersed in Du Bois's murky history until their eyes have grown accustomed to its gloom, if they are willing to feel their way cautiously through a tangled thicket...
...Sumner prize of $450 for the best dissertation dealing with means towards the prevention of war was divided between Herbert A. Fierst '35, of Mount Vernon, new York, for his thesis on "The General Strike as a Method of Averting War," and Benjamin M. Zeigler, candidate for Ph.D. in Government, of Cambridge, for his thesis on "John Marshall and International...
...festivities will open with an afternoon meeting on Friday in the Baker Library at which J. Anton deHaas, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships, will discuss the foreign situation and Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics, will talk on the "Implications of the Wagner Bill. Melvin T. Copeland, professor of Marketing, will preside, later in the afternoon, at a round table discussion on the subject, "Commodity Prices and the Inflated Dollar...