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...Hick's latest book is far from Complacent; the author's highly trained imagination has enabled him to visualize millions of Americans whose existence is not idyllic, whose income is not adequate, who have little reason to like America. It is this part of this book which is the most provocative...
Against his objective data Dr. Thorndike matched his own earlier guesses and the ratings by 280 preachers, educators, social workers and businessmen. All of them, including Dr. Thorndike, were wrong. They overvalued size, the presence of eminent men, and externals, undervalued "hick" towns...
Wendell Brooks Phillips '15 has been fired from his beloved "Hick College." In the last issue of The Atlantic Monthly, Mr. Phillips describes his dismissal from the "Hick College" to which he had devoted "the most vigorous twenty years of his life." Continuing in his defeatist vein, he still praises Harvard whose liberal thought, inspiration, and thorough education cost...
...expound the doctrines, the solid liberal doctrines of Barrett Wendell and LeBaron Russell Briggs to Methodists and Baptists? The trouble with him is that he pays too much attention to the danni Yankees.' Yes, it is well that Wendell Brooks Phillips '15 has been fired from his beloved "Hick College," the college whose first Trustee was his father, the college into which he was born and aiming at which he was reared and educated. It is well that Phillips is fired because now he has told the world that Demorest, Georgia will not tolerate any of these new-fangled thrinkers...
...brother in the rain. There is something pathetic and yet faintly comic about her poor little deceptions and her bright efforts to make a go of it. And the whole business is done with restraint. The brother's clothes are just a little off without being ridiculous; his semi-hick manner of dancing is funny without being farce. When Alice is snubbed she is gently snubbed...