Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, somewhat to his surprise and embarrassment, General Hagood found himself testifying before the House Military Affairs Committee as a critic of his own establishment. His views were the product of 40 years of thoughtful military service (he once taught philosophy at West Point) and his plan for the reorganization and improvement of national defense represented an estimated saving of $50,000,000 per year for U. S. taxpayers. "The Army has become so complicated." declared General Hagood. "that an archangel right out of Heaven could not operate it. ... The War Department has always collapsed at the outbreak...
...best composition courses in college. It does not pretend to inspire great writers, nor is it able to make men writers at all. What it does do is to develop one's ability to write good prose and poetry. Professor Maynadier is a good sound critic who is not carried away by his own or anyone else's unfounded enthusiasms...
...least fitted to be president of Harvard" must remain nameless, as far as the Harvard Critic is concerned, it was revealed last night. The Critic, which will publish its second issue next week will contain no results of the poll started in its opening number, because to date no ballots have been received. In its first issue, the Critic published a ballot which readers were invited to fill out with the name of the candidate least fitted for the presidency...
...consult the statistics he gathered from this table. The reason for the unpopularity of the cheaper magazines over the more expensive publications is only too apparent. We find our critic's conclusions amazing in the extreme. That they are surely false is proved by the popularity of periodicals like the "New Yorker," "Stage," and "Vanity Fair." Especially to be commended is the Freshman's preference of the "Yale Records" to the "Harvard Lampoon." We might also commend their pertinacity in resisting the wiles of the coy cowboy, who presumptiously attempts to arbitrate on their literary selection--a task hardly suitable...
...been in existence over a month, but only last week did press & public learn of New York's Academy of Arts. Immediately the Academy's bulletin board burgeoned like jonquils in an Alpine meadow with yellow telegrams of congratulation from Pennsylvania's Gifford Pinchot. Critic George Jean Nathan, Photographer Arnold Genthe, dozens of others. Starting with an idea and an empty room six weeks ago the Academy now boasts nearly 50 pupils, most of them bartering their services as typists, scrubwomen, carpenters or models for lessons in painting, drawing, sculpture, toe dancing, tango, violin, piano, singing...