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ON THE SHELF

This year's 344-page, six-pound, two-ounce, '43-'44 Harvard Album not only outweighs previous issues, but outshines them in solid craftsmanship, innumerable


BRASS TACKS

"Liberal education" is a fighting phrase nowadays. "In the current discussions between the Armed Forces and the educators on the


THE BOOKSHELF

Virginia Woolf, like James Joyce, is a key figure for an understanding of the direction that fiction is taking in


PLAYGOER

"Our Town" was never much on the theatre. The nearest it got to the arts was choir singing. But the


COLLECTIONS & CRITIQUES

The exhibition of undergraduate and graduate art work at the Signet Society is particularly remarkable for its range; and for


THE BOOKSHELF

James Joyce has been at the same time one of the most influential and one of the least understood figures


THE BOOKSHELF

Inflation is a more popular topic than deflation nowadays, but Mr. Kemler's deflationary remarks are particularly valuable for their timeliness.


THE PLAYGOER

Those who deplore the state of contemporary drama and long for the days of Elizabeth or the second Charles would


THE BOOKSHELF

It is almost axiomatic that what Harold Laski writes is well worth reading, and his latest book is specifically addressed


THE MOVIEGOER

When the Knights of Malta sent off a solid gold jewel-encrusted falcon as a gift to their sixteenth century over-lord,