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Members of the class in comparative literature conducted by Professor Irving Babbitt have organized a lottery, the winning number of which is the total of authors mentioned in his lecture for the day. Tickets are sold at ten cents each, numbered up to 100. Even the higher numbers stand a chance of winning, for on Saturday, The CRIMSON reports, Professor Babbitt cited no less than seventy-three writers...
Persistent rumors that students enrolled in Comparative Literature 11, the course of Professor Irving Babbitt, exponent of the New Humanism, have formed a lottery based on the number of writers which he mentions in one lecture, were finally granted credence. Some enterprising undergraduate, whose name remains a secret, has formed the pool with tickets numbered from 1 to 100, at ten cents a ticket. There are three official tally-keepers who count every writer mentioned: the man holding the ticket corresponding, to the total number of writers wins the lottery, less a ten per cent commission. Naturally, many ramifications have...
Saturday proved to be a Waterloo for the sure-thing gamblers, however, when Professor Babbitt quoted 73 writers in his lecture. This new high has set a dangerous precedent, the proprietors of the pool fear, for many of the students have turned bulls with a vengeance. A bearish drop in any one lecture would ruin the business, but the owners are unable to stabilize it in any manner. Its increasing popularity is attributed to the fact that there can be no pre-lecture fixing...
...slight age, is quite worth seeing. The continuity of a plot is worked out with surprising effectiveness and the atmosphere of "darkest Africa" is quite skillfully created. Compared with the opus of Mr. Shaw, it would seem that there is something in the primitivistic movement in spite of Mr. Babbitt...
...author of Elmer Gantry in receiving the Nobel Prize?" Prizeman Lewis had hoped that Dr. van Dyke would not "demand the landing of U. S. Marines at Stockholm to protect American literary rights." Princeton's patriarch rejoined: "Why send the marines to Stockholm to interfere with the Babbitt? Just tell it to them...