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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jones, Howard Mumford, 1892-1980. Modern minds. [Boston] D.C. Heath, 1949 (OCoLC)706005606 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Howard Mumford Jones; Richard M Ludwig; Marvin B Perry |
| OCLC Number: | 1394345 |
| Description: | x, 591 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | THE PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION: -- We are indicted for immaturity / Bernard Iddings Bell -- What every freshman should know / Roger W. Holmes -- I become a student / Lincoln Steffens -- The disadvantages of being educated / Albert Jay Nock -- The university in a free society / James Bryant Conant -- Science and culture / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Literature and science / Matthew Arnold -- LIFE IN AMERICA: -- Still rebels, still yankees / Donald Davidson -- Small-town Middle Westerner / Willis Fisher -- 13,000,000 Americans / Ellis Arnall -- A short wait between trains / Robert McLaughlin -- Do American men like women? / David L. Cohn -- The revolt aginst radio / The editors of Fortune -- Phenomenon: a profile of Frank Sinatra / E.J. Kahn, Jr. -- The lessons of TVA / David E. Lilienthal -- My America / Joh Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir GODS AND MACHINES: -- Right and wrong as a clue to the meaning of the universe / C.S. Lewis -- Are religious people fooling themselves? / Harry Emerson Fosdick -- Aes triplex / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Science and religion / Julian Huxley -- Man and his world / Waldemar Kaempffert -- The door / E.B. White -- A design for fighting / Harlow Shapley -- The scientific way / Vannevar Bush -- WAR AND PEACE: -- The American way in war : a British estimate / D.W. Brogan -- Education and world tragedy / Howard Mumford Jones -- Fraternity of pessimists / Arthur Koestler -- Hiroshima / John Hersey -- If the atomic bomb had not been used / Karl T. Compton -- Modern man is obsolete / Norman cousins -- The chances for a world state / Crane Brinton -- Civilization on trial / Arnold J. Toynbee -- THE LIGHT TOUCH: -- Farewell, my lovely! / Lee Strout White -- University days ; Sex ex machina ; The Macbeth murder mystery / James Thurber -- The sock hunt / Ruth McKenney -- My remarkable uncle / Stephen Leacock -- How love came to General Grant / Donald Ogden Stewart -- The open window ; Sredni Vashtar / Saki (H.H. Munro) -- FACT IN FICTION -- The coup de grâce / Ambrose Bierce -- Roman fever / Edith Wharton -- I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson -- The battler / Ernest Hemingway -- The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck -- Walking wounded / Irwin Shaw -- The white horses of Vienna / Kay Boyle. |
| Responsibility: | comp. by Howard Mumford Jones, Richard M. Ludwig [and] Marvin B. Perry, Jr. |
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