Word: algers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WOMEN LIVE Too LONG-Vina Delmar -Earcourt, Brace ($2).- Rental libraries are rapidly popularizing the kind of novels that Mrs. Horatio Alger, had she existed, would probably have longed to write. If Horatio's city boys were exemplary, the city girls of Mrs. Vina Delmar Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer...
From a questionnaire submitted by the Children's Aid Society to 7,000 Manhattan urchins aged 7 to 21 it was learned that less than 20% had ever heard of Horatio Alger (Sink or Swim, Do and Dare, Frank and Fearless, From Canal Boy to President, Wait and Hope, Work and Win), whose centenary occurred last month. Only 14% had ever read one of his books, none owned a copy. The familiar Alger doctrine of ultimate riches for the honest, industrious, poor boy was accepted by youngsters between 7 and 1 1 . On their own experience older moppets vigorously...
...have held a larger audience than Horatie Alger. Little boys have sat out behind the barn blowing large clouds of cornsilk smoke heavenwards as they perused the pages of "Bound to Rise" with the condescension of a savant. Mothers have crawled beneath the had to salvage a soiled and be-thumbed "Erie, or Little by Little." Fathers have confiscated whole libraries of Algerians from erring sons and have sat up half the night before a fire set for the avowed purpose of incinerating the fame of the great author. It was a simple creed he preached, this Harvard man. Live...
...Vagabond well remembers his first uplifting introduction to old Horatio. It was "Bound to Rise" and it was behind a barn near a door which was used by the farm hands when they made up the cows' beds fresh every morning. As he read the pages and heard stout Alger speak out loud and bold, the Vagabond truly felt like some watcher of the skies. Here was a man-man, did he say?-a youth of sixteen years is more like-who went to the city. On his very first day there, this boy was walking on an icy sidewalk...
...Alger was second to none, although his supremacy was seriously questioned for a time by one Oliver Optic when he published "The Boat Club." His fame is somewhat different from the usual fame accorded great Harvard men. He was essentially a figure of the masses, a hero for the boys. It is today the opportunity of all Harvard men to give homage not only to its most widely read graduate, but to the institution which is so well equipped to render such manifold services to the world, an institution which has produced among others William Randolph Hearst, President Lowell...