Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the pit the Philadelphia players gave the score all its eloquence. Conductor Fritz Reiner is a masterful Strauss conductor. His clean direct beat kept the framework exact but he brought out all Strauss's slyness, curved the melodies so that their beauty was bewitching. Said Critic Lawrence Oilman in the New York Herald Tribune: "There has not been heard in this country such an exfoliation of the beauty and the riant comedy of Strauss's irresistible score...
There are possibilities of great good resulting from the recent merger of the Advocate and the Critic. At last, Harvard may have a magazine with more than a purely literary function. Constructive criticism, in a university acknowledged to be in a transitory stage, has a value that cannot be minimized, and if the decidedly worth while purposes of the Critic are actually incorporated into future issues of the Advocate, the "well-rounded" magazine that inspired the merger will become an actuality...
...Critic and the Advocate were never ostensibly working at cross purposes. The former was created because it was felt that the latter was pursuing too limited a function. The merger will be justified if, and only if, critical material of a challenging nature is included in the Advocate, and the very fact of the merger is evidence that in the future the Advocate will appear in more generally digestible form. There is no reason why the enterprise that has in the past produced two periodicals should not result in a magazine that stimulates its renders, and offers them a wide...
These ex-editors of the Critic, in a statement which was subscribed to by the Advocate, said that "the Critic, in merging with the Advocate, has in mind the formation of a well-balanced, critical and literary magazine. In so doing it aims at the following results: first, the elimination of competition for the expression of undergraduate opinion; second, the elimination of cut-throat competition in circulation and advertising...
...affected by the merger are George L. Haskins '35, Charles R. Cherington '35, Henry V. Poor '36, and John P. Coolidge '36, all of whom become members of the Advocate board. John A. Strauss '36 and Charles A. Haskins '36 were also on the Critic but were at the same time on the Advocate...