Word: cul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WANDERING about in the cul-desacs of esotericism, the young writers whose several courses are the consideration of "Destinations" present such divergence of purpose that they discover no very clearly marked thoroughfare for American letters. But under the ruling hierarchy of Dreiser, Mencken, Robinson, and Anderson, Mr. Munson finds an approaching aridity that fresh blood must eventually dispel. And so, in the present volume, with a respectful acknowledgement of the critical importance of Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, and an estimation of Dreiser, Robinson, and Lindsay, he attempts, in a series of essays on Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, William...
...report and to analyze, the actual benefits of social service, should arouse a desire for the continuation of the institution. Such continuation, however, is impossible without undergraduate cooperation Unless the present figures are to be taken as certainly a temporary relapse, the Phillips Brooks House has reached a cul 'de' sac in one important field...
Indeed Mr. Peterkin writes with the salutary advantage of criticism as his major promise. He is concerned primarily with the future of the tutor. "As the system now stands," he says, "tutoring in English presents itself to the tutor as a cul de sac, since it appears to lead nowhere, either at Harvard or else-where." Such a situation is one that menaces the system. For if both remuneration and prospects are slight, the talent attracted will be slight, the services of graduate students will be required, and the principal advantages and merits of the system will be vitiated...
...this is leading us again into the cul de sae of hyper-criticism. Perhaps Mr. E. Minus's last attempt will help to keep the curse...
...Glee Club (a) The Gypsy Zolotarov (b) Come Again, Sweet Love Dowland (c) Fete Polonaise Chabriere 5. Alsatian Scenes Massenet 6. Tarantelle Tacchia 7. Magic Fire Music Wagner 8. Songs by University Glee Club (a) Now is the Month of Maving Morley (b) Chanson a Boire Poulene (c) Nocturine Cul (d) Sir Eglamore English Folk Song (e) March of the Peers Sullivan 9. Bacchanale Saint-Sains 10. Barcarolle Offenbach 11. Veritas Dinsmore