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...final fact that there is in all this much material for thought. The symposium, it should be added, leaves the material facile verbiage. Mr. Hale, alone of the three ventures into the inner recesses of the young intellectuals' cannery, and passes some crumbs from Sherwood Anderson's trencher, crumbs anent the arbitrary character of Communist literary criticism. For the rest, the Hoot is conventional and mild. Two undergraduates have collaborated on a dull catalogue of duller New Haven, and Mr. Charles Seymour writes with pale whimsy on artistry in dining. But it remains for the three reviwers to smother...
...Anent the recent discussion in TIME as to who is the post-mortem champion of the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 17), I have been waiting for someone to nominate Dr. Adolphus Berger, post-mortem surgeon for the County of San Francisco...
...Paul, because he was unable to collect a $15 judgment from David Gilman, theatre manager, Kenneth Spencer, ventriloquist, marched across the street from the theatre, made his dummies engage in a dialog anent the integrity of Manager Gilman. Chirped Dummy Spencer : "Say, Gilman, when are you going...
None the less, his remarks anent the intellect of undergraduates seemed, to me, a little personal and I hastened to Widener to read the article in the Saturday Review to which you had reference. Immensely to my disappointment and somewhat to my relief 5 found the following sentence: "In this connection, I am not referring to the 'prestige' universities, as the Americans call them; these, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and perhaps, Cornell, are imitations of European or English models...
...information anent the repeal of an old rule, thanks.-ED. In South Carolina...