Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall pass over Mr. Cherington's stout assertation of the virility of Critic contributors and ignore his attribution to Advocate authors of the most marked physical characteristics of Pegasus, as hardly being in the good taste which he demands...
...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...
...previous 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...
...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...
...sweetness that I can muster in a somewhat sorely tried nature, that he pay a little more attention to facts before he burst shrieking into print again. He blithely mentions "former Advocate contributors and many others among the long-suffering reading public" as feeling the need for a critical forum. Only one Advocate writer, by no means "former," is represented by an article in the Critic, and he asked and freely obtained my permission to contribute to the new magazine...