Word: fitch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard Syracuse Thomas captain, l.h. l.h.Jenkins Norris o.h. o.h. Longiey Skilling f.a. f.a.Mahon Nunnecker s.s. s.s, S. Wood Gillies t.a. t.a. Townsend Merriam c. c. Shogren Crane t.d. t.d. Failing, captain Reid s.d. s.d. Aunger Morrison f.d. f.d. Fitch Watson c.pt. c.pt. McCarthy Black pt. pt. Simmons Kelsey g. g. Wood...
Here are Dr. Henry Van Dyke's impressions of Dr. Fitch's novel, "None So Blind" (Macmillan). He says: "Last night I stole some hours from sleep for a quick 'first reading' and was well repaid," The book is full of life and vigor. I do not know of a better picture of 'student life' at Harvard; which, I guess, is not essentially different from the life at other Eastern-American universities. The particular quality of the book is its insight into the personal nature of the development of a boy into a man in college years...
...Fitch. The nastiest remarks of the convention week were made by Albert Parker Fitch, famed preacher and ex-professor of Amherst. Dr. Fitch said that schoolboys and college boys were stupid. They swear, said he, and read immoral books and athleticize themselves and are remarkably bad. This speech received most of the press-comment. Said the press, in effect: "Once we listened to Dr. Fitch as the great Jeremiah of our age, but he begins to talk too loud. The louder he talks the less we listen...
...specific--which is the delight of Dr. Fitch.--the college youths read "frothy stories". One might comment that Dr. Fitch's adjective was chosen with admirable restraint. And "they are strong on college games, gassip and athletics." This is nothing but pure flattery. It was intended, no doubt to salve the sting of the arrows. "They regard their professors with a mild and benevolent indifference." This at any rate goes too far. There is certainly nothing the college man would rather do; but, except with a few exceedingly superior persons, this ambition has been but lamely realized. It is much...
Several times, it is true, Dr. Fitch insults one's intelligence. For example, when he says that "They think that they were sent to college to make money or to get married" he assumes that college men do not realize that it is obviously, a simple matter to achieve both of these triumphs without any education at all. That is an axiom of American history. And "they swear like pirates because their vocabularies are so limited that they have no other means of expression". After all, this reflection on one's vocabulary is only a sly shot at the college...