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Idler has whipped together for its spring offering a brace of the weirdest little one-actors you've ever seen. One of them starts and finishes before you know it. The other sprawls itself over an hour and twenty-five minutes. Both of the plays are of recent authorship. Neither comes very close to being drama...
Alongside this criterion, considerations of who writes most of the material for a magazine and who is going to read it, became distinctly less important. The latter is almost totally irrelevant and only the first requires an extended answer. The real reason that the question of authorship has been raised at all lies in the nature of the material. Literary magazines have periodically printed issues written entirely outside Harvard in the past, with no harsh consequences from University Hall. The New Student, however, proposes to publish controversial matter, and furthermore to take a view to which most people...
...avowed attempt to become a national (or perhaps even international) student rallying-ground, the Progressive has not succeeded so markedly. Despite attempts to extend its authorship beyond the immediate Harvard vicinity, and despite sporadic circulation drives on various national campuses, the Progressive's ties with the local Liberal Union have yet to be severed. Of the eight articles, a brief book review, and an editorial which the latest issue contains, only two come from elsewhere than the Cambridge-Boston area. These two are a report of the Christian Socialist movement in Oxford by a student at that British university...
...Boyman's Museum, Rotterdam, and other purchasers of Van Meegeren's pictures, as suckers, owing to their acquisitions having proved the work of a contemporary artist, instead of genuine Vermeers. Has their merit wilted thereby? Is the Christ at Emmaus any less beautiful, because the authorship is changed...
...Somerset Maugham wrote, at 65: "The profession of authorship is on the whole a healthy one and authors are apt to live on long after they have given the world whatever of significance they had to offer." Still healthy at 73, "Willie" Maugham finds the manufacture of short stones without significance a habit he can't shuck...