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...High Hurdles" is a story largely about Harvard, as the first sentence, quoted above shows, though the later action takes place in a mid-western coal mining town. There is nothing at all unusual about a novel with its scene laid at Harvard. Dozens of them have been written and no doubt dozens more will be written. But most novels about Harvard, strange though it may seem, are not written by Harvard men and are usually utterly lacking in the "atmosphere", "color"--call it what you will--that differentiates Harvard from any other American college. Such books have little...
...Lewisohn is widely known as the author of "Upstream". He is an exponent of the theory of infusion of Jewish culture into America, and is one of the foremost dramatic critics of the country. After a few years as professor at mid-western universities, he became an associate editor of "The Nation", a position which he holds at the present time...
...Edgar A. Guest, the Mid-Western "poet of the people", will give a reading from his poems under the auspices of the Cantabrigia Club at Sanders Theatre this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Tickets will be on sale at the door at $1.00 each...
...patriotic Americans who desire that our savants should command the same respect as those of foreign countries. One might expect that this effort would arouse the enthusiasm of intelligent citizens and the support of a powerful press. But it was only the other day that a prominent mid-Western paper referred to a session of the Academy as a meeting of "highbrows...