Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Mr. Conrad Aiken titles the present tutorial system at Harvard a "fifth wheel" he is not entirely condemning it. He is commenting on the difficulty in cataloguing the value of the system, not emphasizing its demerits. No one realizes better than the tutor, unless it be his tutee, how delicate is the machine of operation, and how extremely intangible are the aims of the tutorial system, especially in its bloom of youth. One vaguely refers to it as a helping hand, a coordinating influence, a personal guide; and it is all of these things, but it is also...
...Hound and Horn" is edited two members of the class of 1930 and the advisory board of the publication includes Conrad Aiken '11: Martin Mower '01: Professor K. B. Murdock '16, President W. A. Neilson of Smith College, and G. P. Winship...
BLUE VOYAGE-Conrad Aiken- Scribners ($2.50). Whatever the "new" psychology may or may not have done for morals, it has certainly burst the literary levees that used to confine the novel to its streambed. Conrad Aiken, long an escapist poet, is now able to over-flow the way Poet James Joyce did in Ulysses, with a whirling deluge of internal experience flooding in the general direction of a narrative. Less turbulent than Poet Joyce, Poet Aiken produces a flood less bewildering than Ulysses but quite as impressive. The narrative of Blue Voyage is simply that William Demarest, young...
Died. Judge James Hay Reed, 73, father of U. S. Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania; in Pittsburgh. Judge Reed was an organizer of the U. S. Steel Corp.; was a onetime law partner of the late Philander Chase Knox (U. S. Secretary of State under President Taft and U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania...
...Chas. T. [Mother of six]) Aiken...