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Throughout its history, the Advocate has always considered its articles avant-garde. An example of this spirit is H.M. Wade's piece in 1934, "The Phoenix in the Babbit Warren," which ridiculed the "Balderdash and as the Saturday Review by superanhogwash poured out in such papers nuated professors whose knowledge of literature stops with Hardy." In the same issue, Charles R. Cherington said, "The poetry of Ezra Pound will LIVE...
...remarkably polished publication entitled Mondays at Nine or Pedagogues On Parade. Paul Brooks '32 and T. Graydon Upton '31 contributed a great deal of consistently fine and funny light verse. Carl E. Pickhardt's '31 caricatures of famous professors of that era--Barret Wendell, Charles T. Copeland, Irving Babbit, George Santayana, and G. L. Kittredge--are excellent drawings in the style of Sir Max Beerbohm. Part of the verse that accompanies the caricature of Kittredge follows...
During his literary career, Professor Lowes has been a friend of some leading modern authors, including Joe Aikens, Harriet Johns, and Amy Lowell. He had a long conflict with Professor Irving Babbit here about Humanism...
...Roland Young tells the story of two amusing reprobates who acquire the rather disconcerting habit of shuffling off this mortal coil at will. Mr. Grant and Miss Bennett resolve to do one good deed before they knock at the pearly gates, deciding to transform Mr. Young, America's foremost Babbit into America's number one play-boy. Combining the photographic tricks of "The Invisible Man" with a new freshness entirely its own, the film rates as tops in humor; the only adverse criticism is that perhaps "Topper" is a little too much of a good thing...
Other men entered are: G. Avery '33, E. S. Babbit, T. Baldwin, M. L. Baughman '35, F. B. Beasley 2GB, R. M. Bernstein '35, D. C. Braggiotti '35, R. A. B. Braggiotti '33, H. C. Brooks '36, Clark Bryan '33, Lincoln Bryant...