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...seven Capital Sins. Beginning with a prolog describing the death of the father-"This giant man, this grey old beak, disastrous Granite of God that lay upon them always"-that released them into the world, the poem recounts Jared's death from avarice, Abel's from gluttony, Jasper's from pride...
CONRAD AIKEN'S new book is a terrifying psychological study of Jasper Ammen, an egocentric, ruthless character, who plans to commit murder simply to expand his great self-satisfaction. Ammen has heard somewhere the name "King Coffin." His desire is to fuse himself with that symbol, to become the awful, mystic figure of King Coffin himself...
...Jasper Ammen is a singularly unpleasant person to read about. Some will find it hard to sympathize with him, others will find delight in a sublimation of their "Superman" tendencies. To anyone Conrad Aiken's portrait is a fearfully real...
...first semester; officers for one year; president, Henry S. Thompson, '99; vice-president, Austin W. Scott, '37; secretary, Waltor Humphreys; and treasurer, John L. Taylor; other directors for one year, Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen, and Professor Alfred C. Redfield, representing Harvard at Large; Horace S. Ford and Jasper Whiting, representing MIT at Large; Professor Clinton P. Biddle, representing the Harvard Faculty; Professor Kenneth B. Murdock, representing the Harvard Alumni; Henry Elwood Koontz, representing MIT; and Robert S. Playfair, '36; Charles C. Gibson '37 and Francis Keppel '38, representing their respective classes...
...Oregon statesmen decided to end the long, bitter rivalry between University of Oregon at Eugene and Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis by lumping them with the State's three normal schools in one big happy family. Their curious method of furthering this pacification was to appoint William Jasper Kerr, longtime President of Oregon State, to be Chancellor of the new setup...