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...gone among college athletes may be inferred from the attention paid in recent discussions to students who have moved from one college to another and who are designated by the question-begging name of "tramp athletes." Offhand a reasonable man might believe a tramp athlete the figment of a morbid imagination. He who hires a university athlete to come from another college must pay the way of that athlete for one year before he is eligible for intercollegiate athletics of any sort; and he must do this on the chance that at the end of this pauperized year the athlete...
...existing order the challenge now is for men to defend it. It is always easiest to go with the crowd--the crowd always does--and while the general public of other times used to cherish the vague idea that everything was all right it now cries with a morbid glee that Heaven and Earth and Hell thereunder are all hopelessly out of joint with no chance of ever being set straight again...
Anyone who has seen a "composite photograph of the average American" has had a morbid distrust of all "composites" ever since. But the "composite Dartmouth man" in the Investigation of Time plays no dull, uninteresting part. He is not a mere paper-weights figure. He steps out from the statistics with an individuality of his own. That he is a man of taste and refinement is borne out by the fact that he allows forty minutes each day for dressing, and on Sundays ten minutes more. He is a man of varied interests, spending half an hour...
...graceful rhythm of the Ball and the pastoral idyll of the Meadows. In the latter movement the wood-wind choir did especially good work. But these are the only movements of the Symphony wherein Berlioz displays full poetic instinct. The work as a whole is married by that garish morbid-ness too frequent in his work. Mr. Monteux, however, is extremely successful with such "program music...
...unrest and uncertainty which, since the war, have so completely bewildered and befogged "the younger generation", Mr. Fitzgerald has a profound understanding of this phase of our day and is well qualified to write about it but after a time his refinements become almost identical with a rather morbid sort of introspection and the character he is drawing, like Werther or William Lovell, loses the right to be considered as a creation of literature and becomes merely an instrument by which he can elaborate subjectively on his emotional and intellectual experiences...