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...GIRL-Vina Delmar-Harcourt Brace ($2). On a Hudson River Sunday excursion boat-jazz under bright lights, petting in the shadows-Dot of the Bronx picks up Harlem Eddie (not colored), gets goin' with him steady, falls for him (i.e. is seduced) and thus becomes a bad girl. But she marries him next day, and soon enough has a child. Simply this and nothing more-but what more is there...
...Author Delmar, 23, Bronx-bred herself, reports with winning sincerity the workaday story of small-town white Harlem. Except for formalistic lapses that smack of the copies and carbon copies of her typist days, Mrs. Delmar sticks to the racy inelegant talk of the Collins's and their friends, and thus brings them into the limelight of current fiction, featured with Harlem blacks, New England neurotics, mid-western realtors, Manhattan flappers, Riviera swells. The Literary Guild has made Bad Girl its April choice, because "around the simple story is woven a background so authentic it has the quality...
...meeting President Lowell will address the assembled class, advising the Freshmen on methods of choosing a field of concentration. Professor W. Y. Elliott will explain the Tutorial System and the advantages to be gained by it. Delmar Leighton '19, chairman of the Committee on the Choice of Electives will outline the steps for enrollment in the various fields of concentration...
President Lowell will offer advice to Freshmen in choosing a field of concentration. Professor W. Y. Elliott will explain the Tutorial System and the advantages to be gained by it. Delmar Leighton '19, chairman of the Committee on the Choice of Electives, will outline the steps for enrolment in the fields of concentration...
...Getchell won from Paul Birdsall '20, N. D. Fradd won from Mitchell Gratwick '22, J. P. Baker Jr. '15 defeated Delmar Leighton '19 and W. I. Nichols '26 defeated H. W. Clark '23. D. J. Kelly won from G. G. Benedict '23 by default...