Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following review of the second issue of the Harvard Critic, which appears today, was written especially for the Crimson by A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government...
...with some trepidation that the Faculty reviewer picks up an undergraduate publication called "The Harvard Critic." But this is different. It is not the Faculty that is the target of these critics. No a single member of the Faculty is held up to public contumely and two of the professors even receive honorable mention. Professor Whitehead's latest volume of philosophy is the subject of high praise by one of the editors, and Professor Henderson's course in the history of science is moderately praised by Mr. John Des Passes, which is very high praise indeed...
...chief object of criticism, however, is the undergraduate himself. The leading editorial heaps scorn upon the "indifferent," the "deb-chasers," and the "grade-grubbers," while special articles expose the short-comings of the "final" club men and the Phi Beta Kappa. The case of the "final" club men seems even more hopeless. The critic of final club mentality is uncertain whether their low scholastic standing, for which statistical proof is offered, is the consequence of congenital mental inferiority or absorption in social activities or general "indifference." In other articles a tribute is paid to the commercial tutors for their services...
...evident that these latest Harvard critics are not so much interested in criticizing the University as the world outside. This is a good sign. These particular critics are very critical of the present management. Their special antipathy seems to be the "middle class." The leading editorial dubs the middle class "over-stuffed" and also "vast, characterless, and self-satisfied." Another of the editors denounces Walter Lippmann as "no more nor less than the Brisbane of the intelligentsia," intimating that he too has become excessively middle-class. The author of an article entitled, "Hell and Farewell: The End of Social Democracy...
...Thee I Sing," Pulitzer Prize winner, endowed with an equally high-callbred beauty of an opposite type in blonde Lois Moran, has apparently swept the theatrical world of the East. Its very pace and quality is so high powered as to guarantee that it can overcome the most obdurate critic and most cynical customer...