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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...department of History, Government, and Economics is the only one which has yet taken any action on this proposal, having provisionally decided to do away with the midyear General and Divisional examinations after next year. The delay of at least a year in putting the plan into effect is for the benefit of those members of the class of 1928 who intend to take their degrees next February. Although none of the other departments have yet considered the matter of changing the present system of two sets of General Examinations each year, it is probable that most of them will...
...various Departments have felt the ravages incurred by the comparative excellencies of the two sets of ingulsitions, for previously the questions asked in the winter papers have been accepted as more or less of an indication of those which would not be asked in the following spring or at least which would be passed over lightly. Henceforth the June Generals will be the be-all and end-all--as is their proper function...
...work of a more modern tone. Since these divisions are presumably purely chronological there should be no objection, but nevertheless there will be readers who will question the propriety of omitting Hardy and Housman from poets of the Twentieth Century, since the work of the former at least is quite as modern as that of others--William Vaughan Moody for instance--who are placed in the latter list...
...what one of these students has not ineptly termed "the golden days", so the present struggle against social and industrial and intangible frontiers may have some similar result. To such as these, mistaken as they may be, "The Rise of American Civilization" will be put down as at least a tentative landmark
...flavor of Tris March in the "Green Hat" or Shelmerdine in "The London Venture"; in Saville there is Pelham Marlay, and in the likeable Peter Serle a touch of Lord George Tarlyon. Venetia Vardon is the typical lovely creature of Michael Arlen, impossible yet plausible, stunning and elusive. At least the author has realized the truth of O. Henry's maxim that Bohemia is merely a land we do not live in, and has created appropriate characters, which are a relief after picayune sensationists such as James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and others, who think themselves realists for showing...