National Affairs: Hifalutin Talk

"Senator Walter F. George of Georgia was the other speaker." This fact was noted at the bottom of a long column of the New York Times last week. And who could the speaker be, when one of the ablest Senators from the South was merely the other? The speaker was the head of the English Department of Vanderbilt University —Dr. Edwin Mims by name. He is the author of a book* which raised a controversy. In his speech last week before the Southern Society in Manhattan, he...