Word: harpers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SEVEN LIVELY ARTS?Gilbert Seldes?Harper ($4.00). This annoying but pertinent book would persuade one that slapstick comedy, jazz music, comic strips and Ring Lardner are the most worth-while contemporary revelations of the soul of America, and that the Krazy Kat cartoons are "the most satisfactory work of art produced in America today." Mr. Seldes, whose present occupation is the more unexpected in that he is known as a critic of the major arts, here takes up the cudgels in behalf of the so-called "lowbrow" products...
SUNRISE TRUMPETS?Joseph Auslander?Harper ($2.00). Lyric poems, intense, fragmentary, abruptly lovely; their chiseled imagery entirely unhackneyed and often breathtakingly beautiful. One hears the "bronze murmur of bees," feels a ship at night "lifted to the level of the rime-stung stars," knows the "shattered silver" and "crushed gray light" of rain, and the devastating beauty of women long dead?Yseult, Marie Antoinette, Guinevere...
...Hearst has incorporated under the laws of California a holding company known as the Hearst Publications, Inc., which will acquire ownership of eleven Hearst publications, including the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Call-Post, Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Evening Herald, Oakland Post-Enquirer, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Motor and Motor Boating. A prominent firm of Wall Street investment bankers will underwrite and distribute a 6½% first mortgage issue of over $12,000,000 for the new holding company...
...relative immunity which the principle of coeducation has enjoyed, in the guerrilla warfare against American learning has been shattered almost beyond repair by Mr. Rollo Brown, of the English Department, in the current number of Harper's Magazine. In asserting that the liberal arts are being slowly driven into obscurity in coeducational institutions, because men do not care to participate in classes in which women predominate, Mr. Brown has raised a question of distinctly more than passing interest...
Second Freshman Four--Stroke, C. B. Lyon; 3, R. N. Walsh; 2, E. A. Harper; bow, D. K. Snow; cox., B. G. Rideout...