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...Lardner, who died a week after Sime Silverman, was usually careful to avoid inventions of his own, stuck close to the jargon of baseball. Columnist Damon Runyon mixes authentic underworld talk with invented freaks. Gelett Burgess' The Goops contributed a less valuable word than Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt. George Ade's Fables in Slang were funnier than real slang. Gene Buck, who, Mr. Funk said last week, had once told him he "was responsible for 100 words that are now current in the language" was guilty of a songwriter's exaggeration...
...seminars. For the advanced student, the seminar is decidedly the most stimulating method of study and discussion, and Harvard should use it far more. The choice of a field, both for general study and thesis work, needs to be greatly widened. More emphasis is needed, as the late Professor Babbitt was fond of saying, on the relation of one study to another, of history and economics to literature, of philosophy and psychology to each other, of sociology to any of these. Let those who wish to explore the small obscurities of the past do so, but do not discourage...
Winthrop lineup: Morris (Babbitt), l.e.; Dunton, l.t.; Schwayzer (Neusbaum), l.g.; Foley, c.: Sise (Downes), r.g.; Emerson (Donovan), r.e.: Crampton, q.b.: Haring, r.h.b.: Rindle, l.h.b.; Parker (Rolmes...
With the twentieth century and the war came a closer approach to comprehension. Sinclair Lewis, Dreiser, Mencken, furnished blocks for the building; but none was sufficient architect to complete the edifice. Others were sidetracked, as Irving Babbitt to Humanism, Thornton Wilder to Catholicism, Krutch, Jeffers, and Faulkner to Pessimism. Hemingway tried to dodge the problem of values in bullfights and drink without success...
Winthrop: Morse, l.e.; Dunton, l.t.; Nusbaum, l.g.; Foley, c.; Downes, r.g.; Carman, r.t.; Babbitt, Emerson, r.e.; Crampton, q.b.; Bottomley, Mendell, h.b.; Holmes...