Word: mindedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unlike other critics whose sole purpose is wholesale destruction, Mr. Aswell has more or less definite ideas for the improvement of what is an unfortunate but over-advertised situation. In a previous article he argued that modern science and modern university education have removed many cobwebs from the youthful mind but as yet they have added nothing with which to refurbish the renovated area, no new creed which might serve as a guiding light; nothing to soften the rigid skeleton of science has been introduced...
...material. Where he fails--in explaining "student suicide"--and there will be those who will deny that he has failed --is in his segregating a student from the general classification of youth. Education, however profound, however inspiring, can never hope to cope with the vagaries of the adolescent mind. In the nineteenth century it was called mal de siecle, mal de Rene, Werther-sickness--any number of names. Today it bears the label of "student suicide", probably because the public is now interested in students or at least in thousands of boys and girls who are termed students. But even...
...seems to be writing about actual friends of his, or people he would like to have for friends, with an inflection that first of all suits himself, however well it may also suit the public. When they call him a literary lackey he is artist enough not to mind. He snickers softly up his poplin cuff. The point has been missed, yet his work is good, it satisfies his Oriental sense of perfection and it sells enormously...
...these people fall in love with the utmost bitterness. Venetia is lost between Peter Serle and Charles Savile. Raphael grows excited about an actress but fails to commit suicide although Author Arlen has thoughtfully put a yacht at his service with this purpose in mind. In the main their actions are unimportant, their manners make the story. Other figures glitter from unexpected portions of the narrative. Mr. Arlen has not entirely relinquished his trick of reinserting personages from previous books. The immaculate George Tarlyon is seen for an instant, playing bridge...
...league, but I do believe that but very few of them have. True, on the Yankees, we have several good former college men (I myself am a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, and of Cincihnati Law School) but they are scarce. For this there are, in my mind, several important reasons. In the first place, college men come into the baseball game with an entirely wrong attitude. In college they have played for the honor of their school and for the self fame it might bring them. In major league baseball we play for business; to make money. Those...