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Periodic cycles of depression and optimism seem to be the rule in the Harvard literary realm. Last year was marked by a low-point in the graph: Heywood Broun's pessimism about our post-war writing, supported by half-a-dozen other aspersions almost made us believe that there was in fact no longer a cult of authorship in the University. This year such incidents as the publication of "Eight More Harvard Poets" restore some of our confidence, and makes the Yale-and-Football bogey seem a pale ghost. Sixteen poets worthy of the title in the few years since...
...editorials, which have failed to scintillate in preceding issues, are excellent criterions of the remainder of the contents, especially the one concerning a recent remark of Heywood Broun that Harvard had traded odists to Yale for touchdowns. Here we have a touch of literary genius. The second editorial is more characteristically flippant, and is a fairly clever bit of satire on Yale secret societies...
...elsewhere to the increase in intellectual activity at other colleges. To me the attitude of the CRIMSON has seemed unnecessarily critical. Even if the movement is superficial, it is valuable in itself and as an index of something deeper. But at present we know little about it. Heywood Broun commends it, and Harvard college immediately becomes occipital. Our attitude seems to indicate either fear or contempt of the new tendency. It certainly indicates insularity and self-satisfaction...
...conclude that although the scholar's key is no longer-the most popular thing in New Haven, the intellectual health of the inmates is not altogether impaired. Than Mr. Heywood Broun, in his part of the World (New York) utters plaints about the present rush of youthful Eli poets to print, and mourns that all Harvard has is a rush of Crimson pigskin chasers to a certain end of a certain kind of a field under certain conditions...
...everywhere--the New Havon vote and the Vassar student's refusal of election are only recent examples--has reacted; now that Phi Beta Kappa, man must prove himself. This is generally true, although at New Haven it may be the old confict between brains and scholastic Dadaism. Let Mr. Broun and the N. Y. Evepost answer this; we are satisfied so long as our own Phi Beta Kappas wear their keys in their pockets...