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...serious doubt remains, however, of whether mass education through extension institutes is, in the end, the best and most effective means of disseminating the results of investigations into human problems. It was our opinion that Dr. Flexner's vigorous book had once and for all pointed out the utter ridiculousness of mass production in higher education, and had amply shown, in his discussion of Columbia, the inconsistency between extension institutes and the ideals of education...
...Testament of a Critic" Mr. Nathan is the same devastating gentleman that has paraded himself in dramatic columns for the past quarter century. He has been accused of being a columnist with false pretensions to wit and of being a dramatic critic with an utter lack of dramatic appreciation. Such attacks, however, have very little effect on Mr. Nathan whose self complacence seems to grow the harder it is buffetted. On the surface his criticism is clever and thin, but after a more careful consideration of his longer works the cleverness becomes keenness and what seemed superficiality is really cogency...
...Beal, dramatic critic, speaking of the loss of literary value in mechanical transmission, declared that this is one of the most disappointing results of the invention and development of musical reproduction by radio and talking picture. This loss of literary value, he believed, was due to the "utter impossibility" of interpreting one art in terms of another. "In the various arts, through the ages," he said, "many such mixtures have been attempted, always with the same result, failure...
...rate, Mr. March is given plenty of opportunity to reform and to show his love for his secretary because of the utter weakness of Miss Colbert's husband, whom she has acquired in the mean time. He does it by some grand gestures and, of course, finally wins the charming Claudette...
...subordinate priests last week commanded elderly Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, to write them out an Office for faith healing. They want him to prescribe what unctions to use, how to apply them, how to "lay on hands," what prayers to utter and in what order. Perforce the Archbishop, who is Anglican Primate of All England, will prepare such Office. But his version will endure only until the Canterbury House of Bishops prepares an official prescription. It will of course have no authenticity other than exemplary in the Archdiocese of York or other subdivisions of the Church of England...