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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Often the college student is accused of his moral laxness, but it is seldom that the professor is attacked as he was on Thursday at the revival meetings in Tremont Temple. Reverend William E. Biederwolf accused the colleges of having too may "pallid prophets who have arisen to call upon our youth in the name of intellectual independence prophets of guesses and suppositions and unproved hypotheses who are leading our youth into a mental jungle and a moral morass...
...field. Chase will be at second base while Sullivan, a regular on last year's team, will be called on to fill the part of shortstop, according to present indications. The hot corner position will most probably be held down by Donaghy, another veteran, who is brilliant, though often erratic in his fielding...
...exists entirely for its manner. Author Wylie is, it is true, writing again a history of the old battle waged by their alien companions upon those who are ill at ease in the world, sensitive, frightened and aloof. But what ever Author Wylie says, she says with flowers ; and often, the narrow white card, when it is finally discovered in the scented and elaborate bouquet of metaphors, has nothing written...
...Perhaps I Am" is not even as good as "Twice Thirty", and one regrets to see the man who could write such biographies as "The Man From Maine" and "The Americanization of Edward Bok" descending to the trivialities of Hmericks, often stale jokes, and even at best, a disjointed mass of, for the most part, pointless anecdote...
There are a few good spots in the book, such as the meeting of the author with the original Mrs. Grundy, but they are few and far between. Even where Mr. Bok has a good and original tale to tell, he more often than not spoils it by stretching it to excessive length and smothering it under bromidic sentimentality...