Word: formely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THERE was a day when the out-and-out "thriller" novel was a legitimate form of writing, when the author thought he had done his duty fully and well if his reader, upon turning the last grisly page, leapt into bed and pulled the blankets up around his ears, to quiver and quake the rest of the night. "Dracula" and "She" belonged to that school and fulfilled its requirements patly. Probably the fact of our early attachment to those volumes accounts for our disappointment in Mr. Cline's latest novel. "The Dark Chamber...
Starting with Washington, there is scarcely a notable figure of history that has not been, "treated" in the new manner by the modern biographers. Caesar, and more generally, the Roman tradition, is the latest subject for tabloid treatment in book form...
...only is "Mell" the dean of Harvard writers, but he does not hesitate to associate with the callow Harvard correspondents who get their news daily form the official spokesman of Soldiers Field. True, he does not depend entirely upon this source, for his friendship with coaches, officials and former players is a wide one, but he is on the spot almost every afternoon when the news is given...
...antiques so rife, in the eyes of Yale, at Harvard, comes with the notice that Yale tears down old buildings to build new whereas Harvard merely has fires in the old ones and then repairs them. It is less expensive to cater to ancestor-worship in whatever its form than to be creative. It is also safer. If you brush your teeth criss-cross instead of up and down because you like it better, you should go to Yale. If you do so because grandpa did, better go to Harvard...
...flood victims, came not from official Dartmouth, as was supposed, but from W. S. O'Gorman of Manchester, N. H., who wrote to H. R. Beneagh. Director of Athletics at Hanover. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics at the University, and Lon Little, Georgetown coach, proposing this novel form of flood relief. The latter accepted the invitation, but Mr. Bingham and Mr. Heneagh were obliged to decline for the respective reasons that the Stadium is available only for undergraduate activities and that the Dartmouth-team has definitely finished its reason...