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Novelist Howe's satire is not the final criticism of higher learning in the U.S., but it has its sting. Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea...
...brave attempts at a Yale game and a pre-war atmosphere, Harvard College was almost as insipid and hollow a place during the fall term as it had been from 1943 on. The turning point came on the warm autumn day of Friday, February 1, when 1200 veterans, new Harvardmen and old, marched through Memorial Hall, bought their combined SERVICE NEWS-CRIMSON subscriptions, and added new flavor to a stale Cantab brew...
...Harvardmen of less recent vintage would have found the product less strange for the Crimson of April and May '46 has maintained, with the exception of a change in type face here and there, a remarkable resemblance to its rambling, liberal-minded, earnest--but not humorless--pre-war progenitor...
...Harvardmen accustomed to sneering at their sisters across the Common had better think twice this week, for the Radcliffe Idler is giving a performance which from every possible dramatic viewpoint dwarfs the HDC's recent efforts into supreme insignificance. Why J. M. Synge's "The Tinker's Wedding" had never been produced in the United States before Thursday night is a mystery not easily solved; but whatever the reasons, Idler is doing on outstanding job on a wonderfully amusing comedy by one of Ireland's greatest playwrights...
Professor Charles Townsend Copeland-"Copey" to nearly three generations of Harvardmen who listened to his literary readings-reached 86 in Cambridge, Mass., suffering "only occasional doubts" that he would...