Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enter college next September, they will be wiser and better Freshmen. The purpose in the minds of the Rutgers faculty in inaugurating this now departure, is to eliminate failure in college. And although failure in general is inevitable, still in the specific case it is eradicable. By this novel means, it is aimed to eradicate failure among many men who come to college misfits, and who would otherwise continue to remain misfits...
...even be so enlightened as Mr. Heard, Bishop of Bampopo. Bampopo's in South Africa and Mr. Heard is in Norman Douglas' attractively iconoclastic novel, "South Wind." Now he had a most yielding view of south strange sects as Baptists. Classed them with the natives of M'tezo. Incurable heathen, the M'tezo. They filed their teeth, ate their superfluous female relations, swapped wives every new moon, and never wore a stitch of clothes. But they despised lying. One could not help liking them. But Baptists...
Baptists aren't the only bigoted beggars in the whole of Christendom. In Weaver's "Black Valley," that interesting novel of missionary life in Japan, the author draws a character not too unlike the maligned minister in "Rain" But he doesn't call him a Baptist. He might even be a Methodist or a--So you won't be able to laugh at his Baptistisms. Yet you might read the book anyway. It does not approach Forster's "Passage to India," but it is a very satisfying treatment of an unknown, if narrow, field...
Without the slightest disregard or disrespect for the University Faculty, we advance in all seriousness a plan for the wise and advantageous selection of courses which has in it certain novel elements. True, our friends at Harvard have already taken active steps by the publication of a syllabus which gives the perplexed and unwary Freshman. Sophomore, or Junior the complete "dope" on every course which it is within his power to take during the ensuing year...
...dares to be exotic--I can no longer use "original" honestly--and such a soul is Dos Passos. Having shocked America with "The Three Soldiers", helped the Dramatic Club with lunar and spectacular fantasy in three acts and Battle Hall, now puts all of New York in a single novel. Anybody--anybody who would dare to put all of New York into anything but a telephone book is a hero and a genius. To do it takes courage,--but not necessarily a sense of humor. If you think so, read the book...