Word: notes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with the Brickley article in the Sports section of TIME, Oct. 23, I thought that it was very interesting to note that on the very day TIME came out one of Brickley's and Mills' pupils was making football history. Bob Greene who has been coached by Brickley and Mills during the past weeks won a thrilling game with 30 seconds to play when he booted a perfect angular 40 yd. dropkick to give Bronxville a 9-to-7 victory over Pelham. I thought you might be able to use this, so I'm passing...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld...
...Chemistry department concerns the mechanism for seeing that desks are left clean. The students are informed with great emphasis that they must wash their desks after they have finished work. But this information is not all. They are also told that if they fail to wash a desk, a note reminding them of that fact will be slipped into their desks by an assistant. A duplicate note will be sent the office, whence will emanate toward the presumably terrified offender a letter, couched in solemn, hortatory tones. This entire process constitutes a "first warning." This, however, is but the beginning...
...realize the task before him, or realizing it, fled from it. The sectionalists, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Eggleston and Cable, did not comprehend the whole. The fugitives, Sarah, Orne Jewett, Henry James, Emily Dickinson, sought sanctuary in trifling worlds of their own. William Dean Howells sounded the right note, but was too limited in experience and ability to be successful. The genteel writers of the nineties merely catered to bourgeois prejudices. Then came the years of hope, the years of progressivism and the muckrakers; but journalism was not literature, and recognition of evils was no substitute for recognition of fundamental...
...Hicks, has pointed the way to the New Literature. He has seen the kaleidoscope of American life, and has reduced it to terms of the class struggle. He has built the building, and it remains for the coming generation only to refine upon it. The book ends with a note of optimism, and a challenge to youth to carry out the Great Tradition by recognizing the reality of the Revolution. One cannot help feeling that, despite his idea fixe, Mr. Hicks is a true prophet of the course of American literature for the next twenty years...