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...ruminating on the poetry of Miss Lowell, Mr. McComb rejoices that the enlightened have been won over to vers libre, and that dreary disputations about form have ended. This seems somewhat during. In the first place it implies that vers libre is an innovation, whereas as far back as Milton--but that is neither here nor there. And in the second place isn't form all-important anyway? For snatches of life, for casual comments, for detached thoughts that would not be improved by reaching symmetrical harmony, vers libre may be quite in keeping. But that is only saying that...
With the country still buzzing over Germany's unsympathetic reply to the "antepenultimatum," the Monthly launches a little manifesto, "On the Guilt of Error," by A. K. McComb. The pacifists of today, we learn, are the successors of the opponents of religious persecution in the sixteenth century. These "rationalists," "Castellio, Montaigne, Socinus, believers in the power of human reason, proclaimed that the truth might only be discovered by the free discussion of varied ideas . . . and in the end these men triumphed, and with this triumph persecution ceased. The innocence of error was everywhere acknowledged." This is news to many...
...meeting of the Monthly board held yesterday afternoon, the following were elected to the board of literary editors: Howard Henderson '17, of Hingham; Arthur Kilgore McComb '18, of Boston; Dudley Greene Poore '17, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Percival Francis Reniers '16, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Elisha Whittlesey '18, of Pittsfield. David Emery Lynn '18, of Youngstown, Ohio, was also elected to the board of business editors...
...Grant Code's "The Smile" places an old theme in an up-to-date Central American setting with considerable success. The articles on topics of the day begin with Mr. J. S. Watson's "Art and Artificiality," a not quite articulate protest against the "Safety First" temperament. Mr. McComb in his paper "Of Individuality" deals with an allied subject with greater brevity and force. Mr. Burrows replies to an editorial criticizing his expansionist views, but leaves the impression that if Mr. Mitchell cares to continue the argument there are obvious enough openings. Whatever one may think of the views expressed...
...little sympathy and human feeling show more clearly a student's ability?" A. K. McC. reviews "The World Decision" by Robert Herrick, but the secretary prefaces the review with a note of warning. What Mr. Dos Passos says constitutes a sound reply to his fellow-editor, Mr. McComb, on a preceding page. A. K. McC., whom we suspect to be this very Mr. McComb, even says, combatting the work of Mr. Herrick, "We know that trade is continuing between Italy and Germany. Let it continue by all means. Every little thing which still binds an agonized Europe should be preserved...