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...obvious, says Zimmerman, that the professional, scientific approach to a subject will prove less appealing to students than the highly-colored presentation of the grandstander. His statement implies that teaching popularity can quite easily become damaging to scientific integrity if allowed to become a predominant criterion of selection for permanent faculty posts...
...years the most distinguished literary quarterly in the English language has been The Criterion, published in London under the editorship of T. S. Eliot. The current issue carries Editor Eliot's announcement that The Criterion is at an end. To the reading public at large, this news meant little, not so to many a writer and serious reader on both sides of the Atlantic...
Founded with the backing of Viscountess Rothermere in 1922, while T. S. Eliot was still on the staff of a London bank, The Criterion was expensive (7s. 6d -$1.75), highbrow, never attained a wide circulation (900). Yet its influence unquestionably exceeded that of any other English literary journal. Its first issue printed T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, probably the most influential modern poem. It was the first English periodical to publish the work of Marcel Proust, Paul Valery, Jean Cocteau, many another since-famed major European writer. The list of its contributors-James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia...
Though Eliot himself earned the label of No. 1 tenant of the contemporary Ivory Tower, The Criterion also published the first poems of W. H. Auden. Stephen Spender, many another young radical. A Tory in politics,, an Anglo-Catholic in religion, Eliot held to his own beliefs in criticism. As an editor he acknowledged the talent, scholarship and imagination of writers whose social and political beliefs he sharply opposed...
...appears likely, the death of The Criterion marks the end of a post-War literary epoch, then Editor Eliot's last words to his readers may well stand as that epoch's classic obituary. At the beginning of the depression, he records, "The 'European mind,' which one had mistakenly thought might be renewed and fortified, disappeared from view: there were fewer writers in any country who seemed to have anything to say to the intellectual public of another. . . . Perhaps for a long way ahead, the continuity of culture may have to be maintained by a very...