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...Beta Kappa's declaration appeared last week in the form of a neat, handsome quarterly called The American Scholar ($2 the year). Highbrow but spirited, the Scholar will publish no fiction, will seek scholarly but not too technical articles, occasional verse. Its point of view may become as various as that of its board of ten editors, who include Dean Ada Louise Comstock of Radcliffe, President William Allan Neilson of Smith, smart Author John Erskine. popular Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton, Editor Will David Howe of Scribners', Dr. John Huston Finley of the New York Times. Editor-in-chief...
Many a U. S. highbrow (notably Gilbert Seldes) has "discovered" the comic strip, along with the cinema, burlesque et al. Advanced is the theory that the social historian of the future will find rich lore in its crudely drawn and colored cartoons. Accordingly, some future pundit may glean from last week's 20th Anniversary page the impression that anniversary gifts consist mostly of earthenware, that after the party the host (in tailcoat, grey cravat, purple vest) is lapidated by his wife while he loudly cries: "Maggie?please save a cup fer coffee in the morning...
...stenographer: "I am walking in the bed of a river," clapped on his hat and walked out. never to return. Through his artist brother, Karl, he met the "Chicago group" of writers (Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Carl Sandburg et al.) and began to write in earnest. Highbrow critics liked his work, praised it from the start...
Once considered a smart young bad boy of English letters, Aldous Huxley is conquering his cleverness, subduing it to a useful tool. Born a highbrow, he has become an uncommonly sensible intellectual realist. There are times in this collection of essays when he reminds you of the late forthright Enoch Arnold Bennett. The voice is similar but the hands are different: for Huxley is on the whole preoccupied with universal, not parochial, themes...
...finally in objection to the Post's feelings about "highbrow" music, we are willing to admit that the programs of the Glee Clubs which we occasionally hear may be of the hybrid nature, calculated to tickle the palate of the lover of purely "college music" as well as that of the listener more interested in tone and technique. If, however, it were to be the sentiment that such hybrid programs should be removed, we would be far more in favor of breeding a pure strain of "highbrow music" than of fostering the tunes which we ourselves may shout...