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...spectre of Yale literary supremacy refuses to be downed, though various incantations have been chanted before it. Heywood, Broun John Farrar, George Chappell, and their fellow-conspirators have reared it out of an excellent brand of ektoplasm, and the creature stands, menacingly real, before the eyes of the critics who are watching college-bred literature. The latest appearance of the ghost was in a review (by one of the conspirators) of the "Eight More Harvard Poets". After declaring that of course "there is nothing in the book approaching the fire and genius of the Benets of Yale", he enters into...
...magazines, it is altogether natural that the name of Yale should be heard more often than that of Harvard in literary company. Yale itself, it must be frankly acknowledged, has not been the source of these critical inventions: merely Yale's friends among the New York literati, of whom Heywood Broun, a self-proclaimed loyal Harvard man, has been the worst offender. When the roll is called a few years later, the ghost will not be among those present...
Periodic cycles of depression and optimism seem to be the rule in the Harvard literary realm. Last year was marked by a low-point in the graph: Heywood Broun's pessimism about our post-war writing, supported by half-a-dozen other aspersions almost made us believe that there was in fact no longer a cult of authorship in the University. This year such incidents as the publication of "Eight More Harvard Poets" restore some of our confidence, and makes the Yale-and-Football bogey seem a pale ghost. Sixteen poets worthy of the title in the few years since...
...editorials, which have failed to scintillate in preceding issues, are excellent criterions of the remainder of the contents, especially the one concerning a recent remark of Heywood Broun that Harvard had traded odists to Yale for touchdowns. Here we have a touch of literary genius. The second editorial is more characteristically flippant, and is a fairly clever bit of satire on Yale secret societies...
...columns and elsewhere to the increase in intellectual activity at other colleges. To me the attitude of the CRIMSON has seemed unnecessarily critical. Even if the movement is superficial, it is valuable in itself and as an index of something deeper. But at present we know little about it. Heywood Broun commends it, and Harvard college immediately becomes occipital. Our attitude seems to indicate either fear or contempt of the new tendency. It certainly indicates insularity and self-satisfaction...