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...APPLES - William Gerhardi - Duffield...
...Significance. War being an irrational thing, its aftermath verges on insanity. An analytical person, particularly a racial polyglot, can cope with the welter of causes and patriotisms only by adopting a sportive fatalism. Author Gerhardi's minor characters develop this sociological thesis on a very high plane of comedy. The major characters, who dwell on the border line of high tragedy, give a more intimate demonstration of the same philosophy...
...Author. William Gerhardi, British-born in Petrograd, Oxford graduate, only slightly elaborates his own biography in Georges Diabologh of The PoIyglots, the writing of which has occupied his last two years in some secluded Tyrolese hamlet. He dedicates the book to Edith Wharton because, when he published Futility (with the aid of the late Katherine Mansfield), Mrs. Wharton, to whom he was a stranger, wrote: "Do, for the sake of all of us, keep it up!" His one other book, Anton Chechov: A Critical Study, has, as a critical study, no peer...
...POLYGLOTS-William Gerhardi - Duffield...
...first session of practice on Wednesday afternoon, there was a short but fast scrimmage. As the season progresses, the scrimmages will be considerably lengthened. Team A lined up on Wednesday, with Gerhardi and W. C. Fordyce '26 respectively at the right and left outside positions, K. B. Crooks '27 and G. D. Dorman '25, a letter man at right and left inside, W. E. Trevett '27 at center, T. R. Wickersham '26, J. E. Purdy '25 and Captain Patison at the halfback positions, J. A. MacKinnon '27 and J. J. Sullivan Jr. '25, a two-year veteran, at fullbacks...