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The Way: Christ and Evolution
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THE WAY: Christ and Evolution
A study in play form of the bearings of scientific discovery on the interpretation of Christ; a theory of life submitted as a basis of organized human development.
Princess Lazorovich-Hrebelianovich (born Eleanor Calhoun)
The Way is the expression of a woman who has worked in two fields: an art, and the political liberation of a people. She has thus had most intimate contacts with realities. She is deeply interested in the relations of advancing science to the ideals of Christianity. She cannot believe that knowledge and spiritual aspiration should be permanently antagonistic. She would have Science and Religion combine as running-mates in the development of humanity. To this end she appeals to Religion to cast aside her medieval impedimenta, her armor of ignorance and prejudice, accumulated in uncritical ages. On the other hand, she asks Science to lift her eyes from material forces and physical details toward the exalted region traversed by the spirit of Christ.
Toward this consummation, an appeal rather than a conventional drama, The Way is devoted. Zora, the inspired heroine of the play, says to her scientist-lover, Rurik, who questions the divinity of Christ: "Do we know what 'divine' is? Was Christ not the true first son of the Highest among us? As the first, having complete knowledge and control of Nature's energy, and faultless knowledge of human nature? The first perfect embodiment of truth in every relation - of helpfulness, love, suffering to the uttermost for the highest?- God's presence fills him before our eyes!"
The author lays much stress on the truth that humanity cannot find itself through violence or through compulsion. The suppression or extermination of the weak and wicked, the grandiose scheme of the almost omnipotent Rurik, was sure to end in failure; for growth comes with freedom, and no human being is granted the power of final judgment on his fellows.
Life need not be made easier, but men and women can be better prepared for final mastery; the life and teachings of Jesus point to that mastery.
It is easy to recognize throughout that the words of Zora are expressions of the thought and feeling of the gifted author. To what extent these ideas and ideals are convincing and compelling, each reader may decide for himself.
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Title: The Way: Christ and Evolution
Author: Princess Lazarovich-Hrebelianovich (born Eleanor Calhoun)
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1926
ISBN 080473707X
Bench and Bureaucracy
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The late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods witnessed the emergence of a transitional figure in the crown's service, a person who was not yet fully a bureaucrat in the modern sense, but who nonetheless acted with a considerable degree of independence from the crown. Sir Julius Caesar (1558-1636) is an exemplar of this new kind of officer of state, and his career assumes even grater interest because he was also the most prominent civil lawyer of his generation.
Through Caesar's career over a half-century, we can observe the inner workings of patronage, the day-to-day problems of royal service, the quarrels between rival crown servants, the conflicts between common law and civil courts, and more personally, the way in which an ambitious man could build a dynasty for his sons.
Caesar occupied such judicial positions as Judge of the Admiralty, Master of Requests, Master of Chancery, and Master of the Rolls. Administratively, Caesar served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and as Privy Councillor. Through him we see some of these institutions at critical points in their history. Admiralty under stress of the privateering war against Spain; Request when that hapless court not only was subject to prohibitions, but saw its very existence threatened; and the Exchequer in the course of the fiscal crisis that culminated in the abortive negotiations over Salisbury's Great Contract in 1610.
L.J. Hill is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor of Sir Julius Caesar's The Ancient State, Authoritie, and Proceedings of the Court of Requests.
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Title Bench and bureaucracy: the public career of Sir Julius Caesar, 1580-1636
Author Lamar M. Hill
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1988
ISBN 0804714177, 9780804714174
Length 316 pages
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Contents
In Steade of Your Father 1
To Rule and Governe as an Admirall in Deede 26
The Last but Not the Least 54
The Eldest Judge the Youngest and the Poorest 88
Awaiting a Chasteminded Joseph 113
Dayly Labourers in the Publick Service 137
A Sacred Offer Not to Be Refused 150
Cares and Miseries 179
A Doating Time 197
Proper Days for Every Business 222
Enrolled in Heaven 238
Epilogue 258
Notes 271
Works Cited 298
Index 305
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Taking Japan Seriously
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An individualistic, anti-authoritarian society can hardly copy wholesale the institutions of a group-centered, hierarchical society like Japan, but the author argues that these differences do not put Japan's economic success out of the reach of Great Britain and the United States. He examines features of Japanese economic organization and policy-making that reveal alternatives not usually considered open to Western democracies. In some cases, the Japanese system could be profitably imitated; in others, it could be reproduced in new forms. The author asserts that the Western economies have much to gain by taking those possibilities seriously. In one chapter, he suggests that though Americans may take Japan seriously already, they may not be drawing the correct lessons from the Japanese experience.
There are three dominant themes in this book. First, production efficiency; and for explaining the differences in the economic performances of Japan and Great Britain, it is more important. Second, a sense of the fairness of social and economic arrangements is a crucial precondition for production efficiency. Third, that sense of fairness requires a great deal of personal and corporate compromise, including restraint in the use of market power by bargaining partners or adversaries and intervention by government in coordinating, conciliating, and adjudicating.
Taking Japan seriously means more than being impressed by bits of Japanese social technology and seeking to borrow them. It means asking what is behind this social technology and what changes Britain must make in its industrial relations to move toward the economic success of Japan.
Ronald Dore is Visiting Professor at Harvard and Director of the Japanese and Comparative Industrial Research Centre at Imperial College, University of London. He is author of several books on Japan including British Factory -- Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Employment Relations and City Life in Japan: A Study of a Tokyo Ward.
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Title Taking Japan seriously: a Confucian perspective on leading economic issues
Author Ronald Philip Dore
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 0804713502, 9780804713504
Length 264 pages
Contents Introduction 3
Training in industry 20
Dual economy or spectrum economy? 48
Building an incomes policy to last 68
Authority hierarchy and community 85
Longterm thinking and the shareholders role 108
Innovation entrepreneurship and the Community model 125
The road to industrial democracy 145
Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism 169
Industrial policy 193
Meritocracy employment and citizenship 204
Home thoughts from America 226
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Local Merchants and the Chinese Bureaucracy, 1750-1950
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How did China's stable agrarian society accommodate centuries of dynamic commercial expansion? This study shows how the government policies of High Qing times supported an unprecedented commercial expansion by holding the bureaucracy in check, keeping markets taxes low, and farming those taxes to local merchants. When fiscal crises in the mid-nineteenth century forced the government to reach deeper into the pockets of local traders, the guilds and brokers organized to resist, demanding increased tax-farming powers. These merchants used their expanded power to protect their own capital, to lobby for tax privileges, and to limit competition -- in turn inviting more government intervention. Conflicts over taxation between local merchants and the state bureaucracy sharpened throughout the Republican era.
The author demonstrates in a concluding chapter that these historic conflicts have resurfaced in the 1980's, as the Communist government attempts once again to pull the bureaucracy back out of local markets.
Overall, the book presents compelling new evidence for a fundamental reassessment of the importance of local merchants and trade organizations in traditional China, and a new perspective from which to explore state intrusions into local society during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Susan Mann is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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Title Local merchants and the Chinese bureaucracy, 1750-1950
Author Susan Mann
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1987
ISBN 0804713413, 9780804713412
Length 278 pages
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Science, Technology, and Reparations
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Most people know something about Werner von Braun and the German rocket scientists and engineers whom the Americans brought to the United States after the Second World War. What virtually no one seems to know is that the plan under which they were brought -- Project paperclip -- was but once aspect of a much more comprehensive and systematic program of "intellectual reparations."
This program began in late 1944 with the limited aim of exploiting German scientific and technical know-how in order to shorten the war with Japan. As Allied armies swept across western Germany, teams of dozens of American experts -- drawn from government agencies, industrial and trade associations, and the universities -- visited hundreds of targeted German research institutions, technical schools, and industrial firms. They interviewed personnel, examined processes and products, took photographs and samples, and demanded drawings, plans, blueprints, research reports, and documents of all kinds.
But the limited, war-related aims they began with quickly yielded to the tempting opportunities for industrial and technological plunder in virtually every area of German expertise, including wind tunnels, tape recorders, synthetic fuels and rubber, color film, textiles, machine tools, heavy equipment, ceramics, optical glass, dyes, and electron microscopes. Ostensibly, the information gathered was to be made, in Secretary of State George C. Marshall's words, "available to the rest of the world." In practice, however, much of it was transferred by the scientific consultants and document-screeners directly to their own firms and for their own purposes.
This story has never before been told, and the author's meticulous but highly readable account is based on over ten years of research in German and American public and private archives, many of them previously unused.
One of the most striking revelations in the books is the vast scale of the "intellectual reparations" program. At the Moscow meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1947, V.M. Molotov, the Soviet Union's Minister of Foreign Affairs, charged that the United States and Great Britain had taken over $10 billion in reparations from Germany in the form of patents and other technical knowledge. Secretary of State Marshall angrily denied the charge, but no precise evaluation was ever issued by the U. S. government. On the basis of his research, the author concludes that the $10 billion figure dismissed by State Department functionaries as "fantastic" is probably not far from the mark.
General Lucius D. Clay, the American Military Governor in Germany, eventually succeeded in having the program shut down in the interests of German economic recovery, but he failed in his efforts to have an evaluation made in monetary terms to establish a credit to Germany's reparations account. Nevertheless, the popular American belief that the United States took no reparations from Germany needs to be drastically modified.
The exploitation program had a negative effect on the early resumption of postwar German research and economic recovery. In the long run, however, the American exploitation program furthered an extensive network of American-German scientific, business, and industrial collaboration, and it contributed to the American climate of opinion that insured West Germany's participation in the Marshall Plan. Throughout the book, the author has used case studies to illustrate the program -- its nature, extent, and impact upon the Germans and Americans.
John Gimbel is Professor of History Emeritus at Humboldt State University, California.
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Title Science, technology, and reparations: exploitation and plunder in postwar Germany
Author John Gimbel
Edition illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1990
ISBN 0804717613, 9780804717618
Length 280 pages
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STANFORD HORIZONS
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Good fortune has kept me in the midst of a heady stream of youth for most of my life. Eager, enthusiastic, and light-hearted, but fundamentally ambitious, courageous, and confident of their control of the future, they have passed through the portals of Stanford into the horizon. To give some suggestions while they were on the way, or to offer them a final word, has been my privilege. Some of them have asked that they might read what they have heard me say.
The nation and the University have lived through a number of trying periods in the twenty years of my responsibility as President of Stanford. Some of these talks, while perhaps appropriate chiefly to the occasions on which they were delivered, seem worth recording, since crises and the need for individual decision will inevitably recur.
Once in a while one finds that some phrase or idea sticks in the mind of a boy and girl and is of use. To give an address is to broadcast into the blue. It becomes helpful only when someone is on the receiving end. If that someone is ear-minded, as most university students are, some effect may be produced; but since all of those who have been exposed to education have become likewise eye-minded, the present little volume is offered in the hope that even some students grown older will put on their lenses and hark back to those college days of exuberance,
romance, ambitions, and ideals.
RAY LYMAN WILBUR
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA
MAY 22, 1936
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Title Stanford horizons: "Where the red roofs rim the blue", selected addresses, 1916-1936
Author Ray Lyman Wilbur
Publisher Stanford university press, 1936
THE UNITED STATES AND THE FAR EAST, 1945-1951
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Europe-or Asia? This was the crux of the great debate on American foreign policy precipitated by General MacArthur's return to the United States in April 1951.
MacArthur raised the issue: should we sacrifice the European coalition and go it alone in the Far East?
In The United States and the Far East, 1945-1951, Harold M. Vinacke tells how this country became involved in the affairs of postwar Asia. He describes, too, the dilemma of American policy-makers in that area. Abroad, our Administration was suspected of seeking to overthrow the Communist regime in China and restore the Nationalist regime; at home, the Administration was charged with seeking to overthrow the Nationalists and deal with the Communists.
In this careful, balanced account Dr. Vinacke tells how the containment policy has been developed and applied in China, Japan, southeast Asia, India, and Korea. He shows the difficulties of fostering independence and economic betterment in Asian countries without courting the charge of imperialism.
He explains how Japan, rather than China, has become an anchor of our defense system, and discusses the risks of bringing into play the Sino-Russian alliance by attacking the Chinese Communists from bases in Japan.
This book was originally prepared as a data paper for the Eleventh International Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations, held in India in October, 1950. It has since been revised and a chapter has been added carrying the story through the summer of 1951 and discussing the issues raised by Communist China's intervention in the Korean war.
Neither a defense of the Administration's record nor an attack upon it, Dr. Vinacke's book is at once a concise account and a penetrating analysis of the main events and issues in our recent Far Eastern policy. It is published to help thoughtful citizens appraise grave issues which confront this country in its position of world leadership.
At the time of publication in 1951, Harold M. Vinacke, was Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, and one of America's leading authorities on the Far East and its relations with the United States. He taught at Nankai University, Tientsin, and during World War II he was a specialist on Japan for the Office of War Information. He is the author of A History of the Far East in Modern Times and other books.
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Title: THE UNITED STATES AND THE FAR EAST, 1945-1951
Author: Harold M. Vinacke
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1951
ISBN 080473528X
RAYMOND PIONCARÉ AND THE FRENCH PRESIDENCY
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“What happened when a strong statesman found himself confined within the limits of a weak office, the French presidency?” This study answers that question.
Raymond Poincaré tested the presidency within the limits of the French Constitution. He hoped to strengthen the office, but while he did exercise considerably more influence than most French presidents, he found that without a constitutional amendment the President could be important but never dominant, influential but never powerful. On the other hand, his conduct in office discredited the time-honored French witticism that “the president hunts rabbits and does not govern.” His record is not without significance in connection with Europe of the future.
This attempt to weigh the personality and part of the career of one of the French Republic’s outstanding statesmen was judged the best monograph submitted on European history in 1941 and won for Professor Wright the annual prize of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association.
The study of Poincaré’s term in office offers one of the best opportunities to study the French presidency, for more details have come to light on his administration than on that of any other man to hold that office.
At the time of publication in 1942, Gordon Wright was Assistant Professor of History at the University of Oregon.
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Title: RAYMOND PIONCARÉ AND THE FRENCH PRESIDENCY
Author: Gordon Wright
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1942
ISBN 080473416X
Principles of College and University Administration
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Considering the long existence of universities, it is surprising that so little has been written about college and university administration. Students, dormitories, accounting procedures, curricula, and athletics have all received their share of published material. But a careful study of the internal operation of institutions of higher education has almost never been made.
Dr. Woodburne is an experienced educator and administrator, and he presents here a detailed analysis of academic leadership and planning, as they relate to areas of finance, public relations, personnel, curriculum, teaching, departmental administration, and research. The characteristics of effective leadership are defined, stressing the need for mutual respect and good faith between various levels, the creation and maintenance of smoothly functioning channels of communication which permit a free flow of ideas, and an understanding of the possible long-range effects of executive decisions.
The author states two essential conditions for a successful partnership between faculty and administration: problems which arise must be considered objectively and without personal prejudice, and the administration must provide for the free dissemination of information concerning interdepartmental activities and decisions. Although this contention will be subscribed to by most, it is violated as often as it is observed. Conflicts which frequently arise between teaching and management are explored in discussions of tenure, promotion, educational priorities, and the role of department heads.
The principal work of the college or university is performed by trained professionals, and its major product of an educated mind cannot be reduced to mechanical production measures. In fact,aside from typing and filing, the only routine mechanical operations of a university occur in the business office or in buildings and grounds activities. Everything else involves a teacher's concern for the validity of his subject matter, or value judgments on the part of administration. This volume will prove a useful and vital tool in the exercising of those judgments.
Lloyd S. Woodburne is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of Faculty Personnel Policies in Higher Education.
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Title Principles of College and University Administration
Author Lloyd S. Woodburne
Publisher Stanford University Press 1958
ISBN080473366X, 9780804733663
Letters of Sarah Byng Osborn, 1721-1773
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LETTERS OF SARAH BYNG OSBORN
John McClellend, Editor
SARAH BYNG OSBORN, a relative by marriage of the better known Dorothy Osborn, devoted her life to managing the financial and physical ills of her son’s involved estate. Her days were spend between London and the old home at Chicksands, and her letters back and forth mirror events and personalities with rare point and mature breadth of vision. She shows us English life, political, social, and domestic, in references so varied as to include difficulties with farm men and animals, new furniture for a bride, death on the hunting field, and London affairs during the ’45 and the Wilkes uproar.
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Title Letters of Sarah Byng Osborn, 1721-1773: from the collection of the Hon. Mrs. McDonnell
Authors Sarah Byng Osborn, Emily Fanny Dorothy Osborn McDonnell Collection, John McClelland
Editor John McClelland
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1930
Length 148 pages
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French Instituions: Values and Politics
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FRENCH INSTITUTIONS
Values and Politics
By Saul K. Padover with collaboration from Francois Goguel, Louis Rosenstock-Franck, and Eric Weil
Publishered in 1947, this is one of a group of four related studies on French politics and society planned for the Hoover Institute Studies. This group also includes a study of national character by Rhoda Metraux and Margaret Mead, and two studies of French political symbolism and elites by Daniel Lerner and the RADIR staff. These, together with Mr. Padover's study of French political institutions and values, may give the reader an overview of the dynamics of modern France as a participant in the world political community.
Dean Padover's volume, worked out in collaboration with three prominent French scholars, surveys the conflicting values in the traditions of the French Revolution and French conservatism. It then examines what has happened to these values under the impact of twentieth-century social problems, war, and defeat. This study was initiated as part of the RADIR Project (Revolution and the Development of International Relations), of which
Mr. Padover was a consultant.
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Title: French Institutions
Author: Saul K. Padover
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1947
ISBN: 080473271X
Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan
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The history of Japan in the late sixteen and early seventeenth centuries is one of increasing political stability after a century of bloody warfare. The process of state building has been largely attributed to the successful efforts of three generals, collectively referred to as the Three Unifiers or the Three Heroes, who controlled Japan more firmly than anyone had for centuries. This book argues, instead, that the administrative and institutional initiatives leading toward social, political, and economic stability came primarily from local domain and village governments.
The author explores the evolution of local administration primarily in the context of Kaga, the single largest domain and one for which there are rich collections of administrative and land tax documents. Largely based on these documents, this study is the first to suggest an active, constructive role for villagers in the development of early modern Japanese political institutions and policies, and the first detailed Western analysis of the development of late sixteenth and early seventeenth-century land taxation, the major nexus of domain village interaction.
Among the topics covered are the means of assessing land values, the allocation of land use rights, the scope of samurai administrative rights, the development of early village and district organization, the problems and reforms of the land tax system, and the transfer of administrative authority from samurai to civilian officials during the final period of domain formation.
Even where Kaga was not typical of all Japan, events there highlight the range of patterns through which lord, retainer, and village negotiated to create a mutually tolerable, if not always easy relationship. The early modern Japanese state was not as strong as it is typically pictured, and it did not possess the means to implement major changes in the social, political, and economic structure. Only the local authorizes – the domain and the village administrations – had that capability. Because major changes were a response to local conditions and priorities rather than to central edicts, these changes took place at varying rates in different domains and generally more slowly than has heretofore been assumed.
Philip C. Brown is Assistant Professor of History at Ohio State University.
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Title Central Authority and Local Autonomy in the Formation of Early Modern Japan: The Case of Kaga Domain
Author Philip C. Brown
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1993
ISBN 0804720363, 9780804720366
Length 312 pages
The Dark Side of Reason
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THE DARK SIDE OF REASON Fictionality and Power
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Luiz Costa Lima
Translated by Paulo Henriques Britto
Forward by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
“Costa Lima’s argument, highly original and likely to prove controversial, invites us to reread the course of literature from a new perspective. Such an invitation requires solid historical documentation and a persuasive reinterpretation of major texts; both are to be found here in abundance. Costa Lima enriches our understanding of the intellectual ground upon which literature has grown, and his reinterpretations challenge the place assigned in history to various writers and critics and force us to read many works anew. His perspective is not only transnational, but also it integrates the literature of the Americas, and specifically of South America, into the broader course of literary history as a full-fledged participant in the struggles of legitimization waged by imaginative writing.”
- Wlad Godzich, University of Geneva
This compelling, many-faceted work argues that Western culture has always found something profoundly unsettling about imaginative writing and that it has devised various ways of “containing” such writing or at least making it less dangerous. The historical record of censorship and other forms of the containment of literature is relatively well known, though it has been analyzed more often in terms of its effects on literature than its causes. Costa Lima demonstrates that theories of society and of human nature are at stake in these acts of rejection and condemnation.
A new historical consciousness has recently swept across the entire breadth of literary studies. However, Costa Lima shows that this return to history is frequently nothing more than the return of an unexamined old history of literature, merely updated in its vocabulary and reflecting current concerns with such issues as gender or cultural difference. By contrast, he challenges the assumptions of the old history (and therefore of the new, insofar as the latter reinstates the old) and calls for the elaboration of an entirely different perspective on the historical course of literature.
Costa Lima asserts that since the beginning of modernity, Western reason has been shaped in opposition to – and through the repression of – the imaginative faculty, typified by fictionality. He focuses on the history of such concepts as mimesis, individuality, and verisimilitude, and in the process covers a wide range of authors and topics – Cervantes, Diderot, Borges, autobiographical writing, and Latin American literature, among others.
The Dark Side of Reason consists of essays drawn from two books, Sociedade e dicurso ficcional (1986) and O Fingidor e o censor (1988). It also includes a chapter, written especially for this volume, that discussed Shakespeare’s Tempest in the light of Costa Lima’s argument about control of the imaginary.
Luiz Costa Lima is Professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
CONFRONTATIONS
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Nietzsche is generally agreed to be one of the most influential thinkers of this century-but there is considerable disagreement about just what his significance is. This book offers an account of key confrontations in the history of Nietzsche's reception.
Part of the question hinges on which Nietzsche one chooses to read. Heidegger tried to read Nietzsche into the perspective of the history of metaphysics and ontology, and he created the most comprehensive, self-enclosed Nietzsche interpretation that has yet been produced. In order to do so, however, he concentrated on the fragments posthumously assembled as The Will to Power.
By contrast, Derrida's tack has been to approach Nietzsche, not as "the last metaphysician" or as a dogmatic visionary of power, but as someone who writes. Refusing to fix on a selection, compilation, or mutilation of Nietzsche's writings like The Will to Power, Derrida considers instead tarts often overlooked in philosophical readings: the figurative, ironic examples of indirect communication published by Nietzsche himself. Derrida thus transforms Nietzsche into an ironically skeptical figure who deconstructs the very metaphysics into which Heidegger sought to inscribe him.
Because a confrontation with Heidegger is central to Derrida's writings (and because this confrontation is always bound up with Nietzsche), this book not only gives an account of the "New Nietzsche," but also provides a genealogy of Derrida's own writings. The final chapter sets deconstruction against hermeneutics, and a new Afterword traces Nietzsche's reception in the English-speaking world. The author has written a new Preface for this English edition.
Ernst Behler is Professor of German and Comparative
Literature at the University of Washington.
A Bosporus Adventure A History of Istanbul Woman's College, 1871-1924
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The magnificence of the old Turkish Empire, the story of war and of revolution, the downfall of an old nation and the rise of a new one are all woven into this history of Istanbul Woman’s College.
Here is the story by one who spent forty-nine years with the college, Dr. Patrick went to Constantinople as a young teacher in 1875, four years after the founding of the school. She retired in 1924 as President Emerita. During this time the college grew from a school with forty pupils in a rented house to one with several hundred students, modern buildings, and a campus of seventy acres.
Those interested in the history of education in the Near East will find this a valuable book. Thos interested in the development of modern Turkey will find much material of real interest.
PREFACE
THE city known for many centuries as Constantinople was founded in 658 B.C. Originally called Byzantium, it was not until A.D. 328 that Constantine the Great conquered and renamed the city. The present name of Constantinople is Istanbul, not to be confounded with Stamboul, the oldest part of the ancient city. It lay, originally, between the Sea of Marmara and the Golden Horn, on what was called Seraglio Point because the palaces of the old sultans were there. The waterways around the city are intricate and far-extended. The Bosporus, the strait which connects the Marmara with the Black Sea, is eighteen miles long and varies greatly in width, being only one-half mile wide in its narrowest part and two and three-quarters miles wide at its northern end. The Republic of Turkey proves the possibility of a new creation in national thinking. President Mustapha Kemal brought modern Turkey into existence, as old methods and standards gradually ceased to control. The Turkey of today marks an era in the history of the Near East. It is one of the progressive republics of modern times.
As old methods and ideals gradually disappeared in the land, an educational institution was corning into existence--Istanbul Woman's College. The foundation of this college was laid in the latter part of the last century.
Caroline Borden was an enthusiastic leader among the trustees of this institution. From 1871, the date when it was founded, to 1921, the year of her death, the college was her special interest. Under her influence it grew and developed. During the whole of that period her efforts were untiring along both financial and educational lines. She was in a sense the real author of the following pages. Under the pressure of great difficulties she wrote a history of the college, carefully composed and dictated (for during the latter part of her life she was almost blind), but never published. To her account I am indebted for many exact records of dates and events in the history of Istanbul Woman's College.
I would acknowledge further generous assistance and suggestions from Dr. Louise B. Wallace, former Dean and Vice-President; Dr. Isabel F. Dodd, Professor of Art and Archaeology in the college for many years; and Elizabeth Clarahan, Professor of Education and Principal of the High School. I am greatly indebted as well to Henrietta H. Sisson for assistance in preparation of the manuscript.
M.M.P.
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
May 1, 1934
Contents
THE LAST ERA OF OLD TURKEY 3
SULTAN AZIZ 22
AN EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISE 28
LIBERTY FRATERNITY EQUALITY AND JUSTICE 39
ROMANCE OF EARLY DAYS 47
LITERARY ATMOSPHERE OF THE EARLY TURKISH 53
DARK AGES IN TURKISH HISTORY 75
A STUDY IN TRUSTEES 86
A COLLEGE CHARTER 93
THE YOUTH OF THE COLLEGE 100
WINNING FINANCIAL SUPPORT 109
THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM I 116
A GARDEN IN PARADISE 126
HEAVEN IN THE NEAR EAST 133
THE IDEAL AND THE PRACTICAL 145
MORE STATELY MANSIONS 155
FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW 163
WAR AND COLLEGE HISTORY 169
WAR AND TURKISH WOMEN 176
CROSSING EUROPE TWICE IN WARTIME 189
LAST DAYS OF THE WORLD WAR 200
THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 214
SOME EARLY COLLEGE ALUMNAE 224
THE NEW WORLD IN TURKEY 244
A BIBLIOGRAPHY 2 5 I 251
UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES REPRESENTED 258
GENERAL INDEX 269
Health Instruction Yearbook 1951
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Health Instruction Yearbook 1951
Oliver E. Byrd, Ed.D., M.D.
Did You Know That
- Air pollution hits the aged and infirm first?
- The driver who takes changes is more dangerous than the drunken driver?
- Sixty-four percent of dreams tend to be unpleasant?
- High blood pressure need not disable you?
- Cataracts are responsible for most cases of blindness?
- "Truth serum" cannot make you tell the truth?
- Behavior problems of children are not always due to parental mismanagement?
- Bee stings can kill you, if you are allergic to them?
- Crowded housing has an overwhelming relationship to respiratory tuberculosis?
- Americans spend more on tobacco and alcohol than health care?
- The death rate in childhood had decreased five- to tenfold from 1900 to 1950?
- In an atomic attack, panic may cause more loss of life than the attack itself?
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Title Byrd
Author Health Instruction Yearbook 1951
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 080470466X, 9780804704663
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Fables of Responsibility
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This book offers an analysis of the ways a linked set of ethico-politcal concepts – responsibility, rights, freedom, equality, and justice – might be re-thought, not simply jettisoned or reactively defended, in view of the linguistic deconstruction of their underlying principle, the individual human subject. In a series of reading of contemporary thinkers (notably Foucault and Derrida) and their philosophical actecedents (Marx, Nietzsche, Sade), the author argues that an encounter with the difficulties of reading (literary) language, precisely what resists the immediate comprehension or mastery of a subject, enables in turn a new thought of rights and responsibility.
What literature reaches us about politics is that the absence of foundations, whether in the world or in the subject, far from being its downfall, is its very condition of possibility because a foundation or a final resolution is lacking, we have politics and ethics and their predicaments. Like the reading of a text, which is never quite done, any responsibility worthy of the name cannot rest in the good conscience of its certain accomplishment, likewise, the assertion of rights can never be circumscribed or guaranteed – hence the ongoing necessity of the ethical and the political.
The book is driven by a sense that literary and theoretical questions, and the ideas or concepts they appeal to or provoke, play a critical role in the way we think about and experience politics, but that literary critics and theorists do far too little to understand those links or make them matter outside a very restricted sphere. The author seeks to harness this specialized discourse in order to consider what ethical and political thinking might learn from literature and its theorist; from the difficult burdens that literature places on its readers and the unusual transformations it can enact in our language, the very medium o four shared like.
Originally published in 1997. Thomas Keenan is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University. He is the editor of The End(s) of the Museum and the co-editor of Paul de Man’s, Wartime Journalism, 1939-1943 and Responses: On Paul de Man’s Wartime Journalism.
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Title Fables of responsibility: aberrations and predicaments in ethics and politics
Author Thomas Keenan
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1997
ISBN 0804728267, 9780804728263
Length 251 pages
Contents
Literature and Democracy 1
RHETORIC 88
The Point Is to Exchange 99
No Mans Land Ideology 175
Notes 193
Index 245
The British Press and Wilsonian Neutrality
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The British Press and Wilsonian Neutrality
Published in 1951
This study, based chiefly upon an examination of thirty-seven leading newspapers and periodicals of England and Scotland, presents a systematic record of British press views of the neutrality policies of the United States during 1924-1917. Its primary purpose is to demonstrate that state of opinion in Great Britain toward Wilsonian neutrality. While the press is neither a complete nor an infallible index of public opinion, we can assume that the views expressed by the dailies, weeklies, monthlies, and quarterlies, reflect the various ranges and shades of opinion.
In a secondary sense, this study is designed to enable the reader to view the British official position in the light of the attitudes and pressures exerted by the organs of public opinion. The press maintained a close vigil over the government’s conduct of World War I, particularly over the treatment of neutrals. Any attempt to conciliate America by a relaxation of the blockade of Germany was the signal for a storm of criticism by the majority of the press. It as difficult, at best, for the British cabinet to maintain harmonious relations with America in the face of the tensions created by clashing views of neutral and belligerent rights. The use of intemperate and reckless language by certain sections of the press increased the government’s difficulties.
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Title: The British Press and Wilsonian Neutrality
Author: Armin Rappaport
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1951
ISBN: 080473299X
The Emerging States of French Equatorial Africa
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This is the first book in English dealing with the vast area of French Equatorial Africa, out of which have now been created the four autonomous republics, of Gabon, Tchad, Central Africa, and the Congo. The authors' emphasis is primarily on the current problems and recent history of the four new republics.
Not the least of these problems is the political ferment in the surrounding territories. The two northern republics, Tchad and Central African Republic, are adjacent to the Arab League countries of Sudan and Libya. Along the western flanks of Tchad, Gabon, and the Central African Republic are the former trust territory of Cameroun, now in a state of unrest; the republic of Niger, which may unite with the Ivory Coast and Volta republics; and Nigeria. In the south, the Congo Republic will inevitably be deeply affected by the profound changes taking place in the Belgian Congo.
In Part I the authors examine the former federation of states and analyze its administrative practices, civil and judicial institutions, political organizations, rural economy, industry and labor, communications, and welfare. Part II studies the political and economic development of the territories and the emergence of the four republics.
Uncertainty surrounds the future of all these new republics. The principal question is in regard to the shape that their former unity will take, should it survive. The present leaders of the four republics have refused to re-create a strong federal executive, but they have agreed to maintain a loose form of economic and technical cooperation, as well as some of the established cultural and judicial institutions. It remains to be seen whether this trend to cooperation will be strong enough to counteract the older, centrifugal forces of disunity.
Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff are the authors of French West Africa (Stanford, 1958), and several other books.
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Title The emerging states of French Equatorial Africa
Authors Virginia McLean Thompson, Richard Adloff
Edition 2, illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1960
ISBN 0804700516, 9780804700511
Length 595 pages
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Byron
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Byron's poetry has only recently begun to receive the critical attention that is its due. His adventurous life and complex personality have nearly always tended to distract attention from his literary works, and most of the books so far written about him have been largely or wholly biographical in intention. The object of this study, on the other hand, is "to offer an account of Byron's career and achievement as a poet" and it presents no biographical material that is not strictly relevant to a critical assessment.
Mr. Rutherford, however, combines the methods of traditional scholarship with those of modern criticism to show how the strengths and weaknesses of Byron the man are mirrored in his works, and how our understanding of his poetry is increased if we see it in the context of his other interest and ambitions. The book gives an authoritative survey of Byron's poetic development, a searching critique of the romantic works that made him famous in his own day, and a sustained analysis of the great verse satires of his maturity -- Beppo, Don Juan, and The Vision of Judgement. In the course of this discussion Mr. Rutherford examines Byron's claims to greatness as a romantic and as a satiric poet, and fully substantiates his view that many of the characteristics of Byron's best poetry are due largely to the nature of his social experience -- to the fact that he was primarily "no mere man of letters and romantic poet, but a sophisticated man of the world, a Regency aristocrat."
Mr. Rutherford is Lecturer in English at Edinburgh University.
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Title Byron: a critical study
Author Andrew Rutherford
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1961
ISBN 0804700710, 9780804700719
Length 253 pages
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Trade, Finance, and Development in Pakistan
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Nearly all challenges, frustrations and triumphs which characterize economic processes in the developing countries are represented in Pakistan. There are acute problems of population pressure, illiteracy, lack of modern skills and shortage of capital and balance of payments deficits. But Pakistan also has its share of positive factors: a government and people with vision and determination, a willingness to study, learn and exert the necessary effort to win a respected place among modern nations. Of great importance is its climate of receptiveness to foreign enterprise, skills and ideas, and a determination to search everywhere for techniques in order to master them and use them in achieving a self-sustaining rate of progress.
Both authors have been closely associated with development in Pakistan and other countries for many years through living and studying in Burma, Pakistan and several other Asian countries, as well as through research for national and international agencies.
Businessmen, bankers and economists wishing to secure an up-to-date account of Pakistan's trade and payments, banking and public finance and its plan for economic growth will find this book useful.
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Title Trade, Finance, and Development in Pakistan
Authors James Russell Andrus, Azizali F. Mohammed
Contributor Azizali F. Mohammed
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1966
ISBN 0804701261, 9780804701266
Length 289 pages
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Theory of Lubrication
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This is the first English edition of a book that, since its publication in Romania in 1957, has been recognized as a masterwork on the theory of lubrication. New material and a new chapter on lubrication in turbulent flow have been provided for the English edition.
The purpose of the book is to present a complete picture of hydro- and aerodynamic lubrication that will permit immediate practical application, illustrated by situations actually encountered in machine design and construction.
Three general considerations on friction and the motion of viscous fluids are presented at the beginning, followed by a chapter on lubricants, in which data on different types of lubricants are given. The remaining chapters are concerned with fluid and gas lubrication between solid walls. Important results obtained by other investigators have been included, but, in the main, the material presented is the results of the author's own investigations.
The book is illustrated with more than 200 line drawings and many graphs.
Professor Tipei is Head of the Machine and Mechanism Division of the Institute of Applied Mechanics, Bucharest. Mr. Gross is Director of Research Laboratories, Ampex Corporation.
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Title Theory of Lubrication: With Applications to Liquid- and Gas-film Lubrication
Authors Nicolae Tipei, William A Gross
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1962
Length 506 pages
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Addresses Upon the American Road 1948-1950
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Herbert Hoover's counsel to the nation in the past two years-his speeches, official letters, press statements, and published articles are now available in this single volume. The increasing import of his convictions upon domestic and foreign policies makes this book of timely and unusual significance. In his forty eight addresses upon the American road, Mr. Hoover covers a wide range of subjects:
ON REFORM OF GOVERNMENT
"The reform of government is . . . a bipartisan matter, It concerns all citizens of whatever party. In the conduct of their business affairs Americans are very strict with themselves to get the best they can for whatever they spend. Government is, of course, different from business; yet this commonsense attitude of demanding efficient management and efficient use of money is entirely applicable to its affairs. Indeed, if our freedom is to be preserved, this attitude is indispensable."
ON WORLD PEACE
How the United Nations may act for world peace is suggested in Mr. Hoover's dedicatory address at the William Allen White Memorial. The tragedy of the UN is that "it turned into an instrument to protect Red imperialism." He proposed that if the UN is to function in its task of promoting lasting peace "it must be reorganized re-organized without the Communists in it."
ON REARMAMENT
"The time has come," Mr. Hoover said on October I 9, 1950, "when the American people should speak out in much stronger tones than the diplomatic phrases of conference halls." He holds that the United States cannot long endure the tremendous economic drain of support to non-Communist Europe. "We need strong medicine in the shape of large and definite armies.
'What we want is a real peace. But if we cannot have that, at least we want an uneasy peace within the economic burdens which the United States can bear."
ON DISARMAMENT
Disarmament has been "the aspiration of all good men for generations," Mr. Hoover said on November I, 1 950, in response to an award for outstanding citizenship, but "disarmament flows from peace, not peace from disarmament.
". . . Nothing will stifle the Kremlin's aggressive ambitions except such organized military, economic, and moral force of all non-Communist nations as will confront the Politburo with the grim visage of defeat if they attack.
"However, the real solution of the world's greatest trouble would be for the Soviet Union to co-operate in promoting the welfare of mankind. They could join in a constructive peace with Germany, Austria, and Japan. Only by such a peace could steps be taken toward disarmament."
In his forty-eight ADDRESSES UPON THE AMERICAN ROAD, 1948-1950, Mr. Hoover speaks on an amazing range of subjects: the reorganization of government, world peace, rearmament and disarmament, "the miracle of America," federal aid to education, old-age assistance, responsible citizenship, how to save tax money, benevolent and youth organizations, advertising--and on football.
THE AUTHOR
Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the United States, has unsurpassed firsthand knowledge of world-wide economic and political problems. His many years of professional engineering service before the Presidency, his distinguished record as United States food administrator after World War I, and his extensive food surveys following World War I1 form a solid foundation of experience and service. A unique contribution has been his chairmanship of the First and Second Commissions on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government. He has received honorary degrees from eighty-one institutions in the United States and abroad. He is the founder of the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution, and Peace at his alma mater, Stanford University.
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Title Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950
Authors Herbert Hoover
Publisher Stanford University Press
ISBN 0804761841, 9780804761840
Economy in Education
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We owe so much to our public schools and so readily take them for granted that we may fail to recognize how careful we should be in any projected program of economy in education. The people of our nation have gone through an economic crisis of great severity and have in spite of it retained good health, good order, and stability. This is evidence of an informed public. For this we may certainly credit our public school system more than any other factor. The American school has brought about in each community a mutual understanding which has permitted unusual co-operation in these times of difficulty. Before we change any essential element in our public school system, then we must be sure that we are not damaging it, for it provides the best guaranty of continued national life that we have.
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Economy in education
William John Cooper
Stanford university press, 1933
Original from the University of Michigan
82 pages
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Addresses Upon the American Road, 1950-1955
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Great changes have taken place in America during the years since 1950.Her influence overseas has swelled; she has participated in the Korean War;she has a new leadership. To Herbert Hoover, who has known what it is to guide the affairs of the nation, these changes have special significance. With great wealth of experience, he sees them in the light of history. In this book are his speeches, press statements, articles, letters, and miscellaneous short publications during this strongly marked period of American history.
Foreign policy is a major topic: from the proposals of January 27, 1952, that America's might be turned to air and sea power rather than ground forces, to the speeches in Germany during the winter of 1954. There are many statements on internal affairs; of special interest are the reports on the Second Reorganization Commission and the statement recommending liquidation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
But there are also many non-political utterances, and in these the breadth of Hoover's character is displayed. For here is a man who can discuss Agricola's De Re Metallica, a man of deep religious conviction, a man of wry humor and immense humanity. Witness his remarks on "The City Boy": "He is a part-time incarnation of destruction, yet he radiates sunlight to all the world. He gives evidence of being the child of iniquity, yet he makes a great nation.
. . . Every one of his body cells contains an interrogation point. Yet he is the most entertaining animal in existence."
THE AUTHOR
Herbert Hoover, thirty-first President of the United States, has unsurpassed firsthand knowledge of world-wide economic and political problems. His many years of professional engineering service before the Presidency, his distinguished record as United States food administrator after World War I, and his extensive food surveys following World War I1 form a solid foundation of experience and service. A unique contribution has been his chairmanship of the First and Second Commissions on Organization of the Executive Branch of Government. He has received honorary degrees from eighty-one institutions in the United States and abroad. He is the founder of the Hoover Institute and Library on War, Revolution, and Peace at his alma mater, Stanford University.
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Title Addresses upon the American Road, 1950-1955
Authors Herbert Hoover
Publisher Stanford University Press 19955
ISBN 0804761884, 9780804761888
Contents
OUR NATIONAL POLICIES IN THIS CRISIS 3
WE SHOULD REVISE OUR FOREIGN POLICIES 11
ON DEFENSE OF EUROPE 23
ON BEHALF OF CRUSADE FOR AMERICA 33
ADDRESS AT THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION 53
ON THE OCCASION OF THE RETURN OF FREE 66
the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame Chicago Illinois 70
SOME HOPES FOR PEACE 85
THE SERVICE OF UNIVERSITIES TO FREEDOM 92
CAN WE EVER HAVE PEACE WITH 101
ON THE SITUATION IN THE MINERAL AGENCIES 107
THE INFLATION THREAT 119
MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION 136
YOUR INHERITANCE 153
AMERICAN GOOD GOVERNMENT SOCIETY 159
SOME NATIONAL PROBLEMS 171
A DISCUSSION OF DE RE METALLIC A 179
ADDRESS AT DINNER HONORING DR 188
ON ENGINEERS 196
THE SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS PROMISE 202
ENGINEERING AS A PROFESSION 209
THE REORGANIZATION OF THE EXECUTIVE 215
THE ELECTION OF FEDERAL OFFICIALS 224
REORGANIZATION OF THE GOVERNMENT 230
ORGANIZATION OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 237
ON REORGANIZATION PROPOSALS 243
TRUE 250
ON REORGANIZATION OF THE SOIL CONSERVA 256
ON LEGAL SERVICES AND PROCEDURES OF 262
FARM CITY CONFERENCE ECONOMY AWARD 270
THE CITY VERSUS BOYS 277
ON MEDICAL EDUCATION 284
MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 291
ON FEEDING PEOPLE WITH THE AMERICAN 297
THE AMERICAN DREAM 303
Master Quaker by David Hinshaw The Free 305
DEDICATION OF THE HERBERT HOOVER SCHOOL 312
ADDRESS TO YOUTH 318
ON A MEMORIAL TO THE HONORABLE JAMES 328
HOW TO BECOME PRESIDENT 337
THE IMPORTANCE OF VOTING 343
ADDRESS AT THE WEST TOWN SCHOOL 349
HOW TO STAY YOUNG 356
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