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Quite possibly the external difficulties of Crane's poetry, like Hopkins' will prevent its ever being widely enjoyed. At any rate, one cannot feel that Waldo Franks' attempt to dispel them in his introductory essay is very fortunates. Mr. Frank, otherwise an excellent editor, displays again his happy knack of giving large expression to little ideas and confuses the problems of Crane's poetry with a serious air of clarification. He does, however, suggest the greatness of Hart Crane's achievement in view of the material he was forced to use, and the authentic idiom which he finally created...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...intensive knowledge of his special field; in addition to these qualifications, according to these who know him, he possesses wide interests which extend to the educational and cultural fields he is to lead in the future. His election, on these grounds, is a well calculated choice. In order to dispel the fears aroused by Professor Conant's devotion to his own subject, the daily press has made much of the fact that President Eliot also was a Professor of Chemistry when called to the higher office. The analogy, however, cannot be carried too far: Conant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANT AND THE PRESIDENCY | 5/9/1933 | See Source »

...medium of student expression in Harvard the existence of too much genteel self-granulation and too little self-examination. The Critic is intended to be critical, but not sensational. It is to deal primarily, although not exclusively, with problems of education. Above all, it is to strive to dispel 'the dismal pall of apathy' which hangs over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JOURNAL WILL APPEAR TODAY FOR FIRST TIME | 12/15/1932 | See Source »

Through repeated blood tests it was found that, in spite of intense heat, the character of the blood remained fairly constant. The party was able to dispel the notion that cold water and meat are injurious in hot climates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School rogue Laboratory Conducts Investigation of Heat Effect at Boulder Dam | 9/27/1932 | See Source »

...Last week it was announced that Governor General Roosevelt would return from the Philippines in mid-September to join the Hoover campaign, help dispel the notion that the Democratic presidential nominee belongs to T.R.'s breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Job No. 2 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

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