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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...center 23 5.11 180 St. Marks Francis Rouillard '23, back 21 5.05 172 Chicopee High Philip Spalding '25, quarterback 20 5.09 142 Milton P. H. Theopold '25, tackle 20 6.01 175 St. Marks G. W. Tower '23, tackle 21 5.11 185 New Rochelle High Cetre Statistics Name and Position Age Height Weight Prep School Themas Bartlett, back 22 5.08 157 Charles Cecil, end 20 5.08 160 Leslio Combs, end 22 5.11 156 Morgan Park Mil. Herbert Covington, quarterback 20 5.05 158 Mayfield High Benjamin Cregor, tackle 23 5.11 180 Minos Gordy, tackle 21 5.10 177 Peoples Tucker James Green, back...
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "This Side of Paradise", there was a great hue and cry; when "Flappers and Philosophers" appeared, there was still a hue, and somewhat less of a cry; "The Beautiful and Damned" evoked merely a cry;--the best comment on "Tales of the Jazz Age" is dead silence. However, this space must be filled, and a reviewer cannot write, like Hilaire Belloc, on "Nothing". But we will be brief. Perpend...
...Tales of the Jazz Age" is a compilation of short stories--some better, some worse, but all indifferent--previously published as magazine fiction. It is a volume tendered primarily into the "hands of those who read as they run and run as they read". And this statement by the author sums up the whole proposition very neatly, in that the book is imbued with the "running" fever; the author runs--jazzily, rejoicing in his own self-confessed naughtiness; and the reader runs likewise--mainly in aimless, frantic circles! Until finally both author and reader are hopelessly weary of themselves...
...certainly something more than the surface flush of artificial fever is to be looked for, in one who pretends to such a reputation as does the author of the "Tales". In one way, it is true, Fitzgerald is not entirely to blame: he is essentially the product of his age--the "jazz age" if you will--and was as inevitable, in some form or other, as the mediaeval Black Death or the modern poison gas. A spirit that is professedly superficial and light-headed must perforce give birth to its literary parallel; and F. S. F., with his creed...
Occasionally, even in this age of "canned" music and "movie-ized" art, we hear of men who, apart from the world, quietly conduct far-sighted experiments to revolutionize the future. In the midst of the wranglings of the World War, a few men were secretly working for the advancement of science. Untouched by passions for conquest and power, like the alchemists of old they worked on a device fully as great as the discovery of the philosopher's stone, a device for dumping seventy-five tons of T. N. T. on Berlin...