Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...analyze. The public has been reacting to it identically-under the name of Ca- mille-for a good many years. And its mode of expression has been consistently lachrymal and always will be, as long as Camille continues to renounce her happiness and persists in giving up her charming ghost at the critical moment...
...Bonus ghost is not laid...
...honor as to disinter the bodies of the kings in Westminster Abbey. But, strangely enough, this prying into the past does not violate Egyptian tradition. The ancient faith released the spirit of the dead from the tomb after three thousand years; in the days of Martin Luther, then, the ghost of Pharaoh deserted the inner chamber, and only the mummy's empty shell remained...
Since cock-crow and daylight have not been sufficient, the ghost must be dispersed, by the old device of hoax exposers; he must be confronted with self-comparisons, odious though they may be. First, in the Harvard scale, come the names of George Santayana, Percy McKaye, John Jay Chapman, Ed win Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Cale Young Rice. They, to be sure belong to the era before the ghost was raised; but they still manage to keep pace with the advancing generations. After the century mark stand such poets as Hermann Hagedorn. John Gould Fletcher, Arthur Davison Ficks...
This cataloguing is perhaps a poor but at least an honest way to attack the dark blue ghost. Yale, it is true, has a highly honorable list of its own, with he Benets and such men as John Farrar of the "Bookman" at its head. But more interesting, perhaps, is the place that Yale has won in critical and editorial, circles. With New Haven men writing the book reviews, reading the manuscripts for publishing houses, and editing the magazines, it is altogether natural that the name of Yale should be heard more often than that of Harvard in literary company...