Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this ribald and entertaining, albeit disrespectful opus Ernest Boyd sets out to fire the whiskers of several highly respected lit'ry gents of the classic English school, and in spite of the fact that a good deal of what he says is patently untrue, or at least misleading, it must be admitted that his theses are never anything but plausible. The best traditions of English letters seem to present to him an endless and enchanting vista of abstract crockery to be broken with loud pagan snorts and bellows, and while he not infrequently builds an elaborate argument of disproof where...
...Boyd attempts to deal with accepted classical writers much as criticism deals with contemporary authors, not with the pretentious and usually spurious dignity of an academic vocabulary, but with the same sneezes and jeers that are accorded a ham novelist in the current prints. Milton, Byron and Whitman were not unacquainted with the critical raspberry in their lifetimes, and it is certain that the mere getting out of the rubber-tired hack and rolling them off to the cemetery did not rectify their deficiencies, render more agreeable their not infrequent dullness, nor sublimate their frowsy cliches into epigrams...
...does not appear that Mr. Boyd is trying to jazz up his critical reputation by mere wanton attacks upon the traditional esteem in which such worthies as Milton, Dickens and Poe are held. He merely points out that to the sane man the theme of "Paradise Lost" is so much moral and cosmic spinach, and that since Milton selected this subject because it was what he regarded as literal truth, not fiction, the poem, for all its beauties, smacks somewhat of futility, as must any thesis as devoid of any slightest biological probability. Mr. Boyd merely remarks that...
...Sever 17, 18, 20, 23 Education A Emerson J Engin. Sciences 5a Pierce 304 Fine Arts 2a Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 5c Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 15b Fogg Mus. French 30 Sever 32, 35 Geology 19 Sever 11 German 1c Harvard 5 German 4 Sever 8 Government 1 Mr. Boyd, B1, B2, B3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Dealey, D1, D2. New Lect. Hall Mr. Hindmarsh, F1, F2, F3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Houser, H1, H2, Harvard 5 Mr. Hurd, A1, A2, A3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Padelford, P1 New Lect. Hall Mr. Sinclair, S1, S2, S3 Memorial Hall Mr. Vickers...
...Sever 17, 18, 20, 23 Education A Emerson J Engin. Sciences 5a Pierce 304 Fine Arts 2a Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 5c Fogg Mus. Fine Arts 15b Fogg Mus. French 30 Sever 32, 35 Geology 19 Sever 11 German 1c Harvard 5 German 4 Sever 8 Government 1 Mr. Boyd, B1, B2, B3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Dealey, D1, D2. New Lect. Hall Mr. Hindmarsh, F1, F2, F3 New Lect. Hall Mr. Houser, H1, H2, Harvard 5 Mr. Hurd, A1, A2, A3 New Lect Hall Mr. Padelford, P1 New Lect. Hall Mr. Sinclair, S1, S2, S3 Memorial Hall Mr. Vickers...