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...Author. Born in Tennessee, 1881, Thomas Sigismund Stribling was graduated from the University of Alabama in 1904, wrote super-Sundayschoolish stories for the Nashville Sundayschool magazine. From such efforts he made a slow recovery. Birthright, his first novel, was published in 1921. Ten years later he began publishing his cycle for which he has been gathering material all his life. Says he of its characters, its locale: "To talk about whom I interviewed for this book is nonsense. I was born into it and when I get out of it, I'll die out of it." Other books: Fombombo...
...present evolution of events in this country might well have presented it again. If it is lost by affiliation with a group of doctrinaires, the solidity and coherence of program achieved by that affiliation will be a small compensation. The Club appears to have traded its liberal birthright for a mess of radical pottage...
...college has indeed sold its birthright for a mess of fire-engines. From this strategic point where they cannot come or go without disturbing the whole Yard and a dozen outlying buildings, the big red trucks will spread bedlam wherever Harvard men have their classes. From Paine Hall to Emerson, Beethoven will be punctuated with triple alarms and Philosophy with false alarms. Even the Gibralter-like walls of the new chapel will tremble...
...ourselves and circulate the impression that we have put on the pretense of being gentlemen from sheer surfeit with the things of this world. After all, we owe it to coming generations of Dartmouth men to preserve the world's illusion concerning them. We must save them their birthright. We can't eat a mess of pottage and have it too. The Dartmouth...
...Forge is the first of a cycle in which Author Thomas Sigismund Stribling?will show "the upheaval of a whole civilization." A Tennessean but not an unreconstructed Southerner, Stribling* has written of the Civil War with malice toward none, with flashes of charitable humor for most. Other books: Birthright, Teeftallow, Bright Metal, Backwater...