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High Jump.--Won by Gifford (Y), 5 ft. 8 1-4 in.; second, tie between Durgin (H), Cutler (Y), and Meima...
...following men will usher at the dance: G. U. Baylies '24, W. R. Baylies '24, J. G. Cushman '25, W. M. Cutler '23, J. D. DuBois '24, J. R. Flather '23, J. M. Forbes '23, S. C. Graves '24, R. H. Hallowell '25, T. S. Hanington '23, H. P. V. Harris '23, M. H. Harris '24, C. M. Hastings '25, F. K. Kernan '24, Darragh Louderback '24, L. O. V. Mann '25, L. R. Nichols '24, J. B. Paine Jr. '23, H. P. Sharp '25, R. L. Raymond...
Quite different from recent fiction appears an ambitious attempt by Robert Cutler, a Harvard graduate in the class of 1916, to cover, in a novel of four hundred pages, "American life" and to cover it in all its complexity. "The Speckled Bird" is the Kaleidoscopic result. We are given a formal and appropriate introduction to a stiff New England household which had existed untarnished for more than three centuries: we are allowed to sit at the luxurious table of an unpolished but kindly Irish financier who had survived two panics and who now entertained a host of uncouth "hangers...
...Cutler takes us up to the prewar days and opens the door upon collegiate revels, and paints the high society of Boston, New York, and Palm Beach in the most elaborate colors. Intimate glimpses are also afforded of the financial machinery of Wall Street, and we are introduced to the calculating type of German Jew in the business world. The change that came over all orioles of society when war was finally declared is admirably portrayed, for Mr. Cutler succeeds in reproducing the spirit that existed in the home, the training camps and the field...
...times Mr. Cutler's style is vivid, but too often he breaks the effect of continuity by the copious use of long parenthetical comments, and too often the reader is reminded of the author's presence. His fondness for allusions and vague metaphors frequently spoils an otherwise delectable description, making it seem heavy and out of place. Mr. Cutler has succeeded best in his portrayal of the two extremes of character, the proper Clemency Vane, who looks ever backward to her ancestors, and Michael Hare, whose only hope and happiness is his grand-daughter. As a story the novel...