Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strongly supported was the student contention that the national awards should go to undergraduates in their last two years of College training. It was argued that only in this way could the Latin-Americans brought to Harvard act as unofficial ambassadors of good will in their respective countries...
...Sargent emphasizing, which may possibly be worth doing, the commercial and reactionary character of the revival in recent decades of academic ritual, diploma fetichism, etc. Mr. Sargent swells his argument with some anthropological and Veblenist observations that need not be taken too seriously. The verse in this issue is good, particularly a lyric evidence of Marvin Barrett's remarkable feeling for phrase and imagery. In David Parry's translation--at least it says it is--from the Welsh, the orthography is antique, with u in place of v and vice versa. Elsewhere in the issue are a good many other...
...entries in the annual Story Magazine contest. Of these I liked Mr. Wenzel's "Journey to Shreveport" best. It is a more brutal and masculine rendering of the situation in Josephine Johnson's "Nigger Honeymoon," with the shock of full awareness reserved until the end. Although Mr. Wenzel makes good use of the excitement of his material, his story derives its value from his ability to observe, and from a sense of country passed through and the things people say and the disturbing fact that it is also completely American to be like Charlie...
...moments when human values are treated without sham and military fanfare, "The Duke of West Point" is a really good picture. Louis Hayward, Tom Brown and Richard Carlson are a trio worth watching...
...minor sports here at Harvard." He also mentioned the coaching angle (which proved to be a popular rallying point for opponents of the plan) and said that it would be impossible for a coach to spread his time over a group of House teams and do as good a job as he would on but one intercollegiate squad...