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...fear that I may violate Mr. C. R. Cherington's canons of good taste by daring to reply to his letter in yesterday's CRIMSON, and even lay myself open to the charge of writing another sarcastic and peevish communication. Mr. Cherington's letter was, of course, quite free from these faults which marred my recent letter on the Critic, and since I feel that a reply is in order, I shall strive to attain the level of gentlemanly polemic that he set yesterday...
...Cherington's remarks on the financial condition of the Advocate, while interesting as theoretical speculations, are nevertheless gratuitous impertinences which I shall ignore in confining myself to subjects about which Mr. Cherington may know something...
...letter I pointed out that the Critic, according to its editorial, was evidently planning to duplicate the announced policy of the Advocate. I showed at some length that this policy had been carried into effect, but my words seem to have been in vain as far as convincing Mr. Cherington was concerned. The Advocate is, by no stretch of even Mr. Cherington's imagination, the "organ of a certain specialized literary school," i.e., what Mr. Cherington quaintly calls "T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, & Co." Mr. Cherington should know, after four years of Harvard College, that Messrs. Eliot and Pound, though...
...Cherington states: "The Critic does not presume, as Mr. Wade implies, to the arrogant undertaking of teaching Harvard men to think." I am glad, but then I cannot understand why the Critic editorial should contain these words: "To teach how to think and what to think about. . .' Idealistically the existence of the Critic is a tacit plea for this...
...could be. Mr. H. M. Wade would show, in our opinion, considerably more sense and even more good taste if he would admit that he has not lived up to his opportunities before he starts writing sarcastic and peevish letters to the papers. "Dies irae, dies illa." Charles R. Cherington...