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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Discriminating Book Reviews...
...rest of the number consists chiefly of book reviews, written for the most part with good sense and discrimination. Mr. Seldes's "American Literature: Currents and Whirlpools" somewhat ambitiously attempts a diagnosis of the diseases of "bad work and insignificant work" from which he believes the novel of this country to be suffering. The article contains sound distinctions and acute observations, but it is marred by some pretentiousness in tone and certain defects of style. These last are such as perennially affect the cleverer kinds of undergraduate criticism--the use of a vocabulary sometimes merely precious, sometimes employed with...
...Hall on Wednesday and Thursday, December 10 and 11, at 8 o'clock. Tickets at $1.50 may be obtained from C.W. Cheney '15 at Randolph 26 or at Herrick's. Balcony seats at 75 and 50 cents are on sale at the Co-operative Branch and at the Schoenhof Book Company, 128A Tremont street, Boston...
...number concludes with some readable book-reviews and a musical skit. GEORGE E. WESTON...
...first of a number of lectures by prominent men brought here under the auspices of the Socialist Club will be given by Mr. William E. Walling in Emerson D this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Progressivism and After," the title of a book which he is to publish shortly. In his work and lectures on this subject, Mr. Walling draws up his argument in favor of more radical measures than those advocated by the Progressives and shows the necessity of instituting a movement that will forge ahead toward the aim of Socialism with more efficiency...