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...fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom . . ." quotes Mr. Benet, and in the quotation is found the theme of his book how one Phillip Sellaby, after a rather hectic career during his last year of college (Yale, of course), and for some years following, has the way to understanding--or, at least, fear--of the Lord, paved for him by love. With this knowledge comes to Mr. Sellaby a certainty of principle and purpose with which to guide his actions. Really it is quite an accomplishment--both for Sellaby and the author. One feels that the book...
...chief criticism of the book is that Phillip Sellaby is not the pulsing human being he should be. His experiences are vivid enough; the author has a faculty for imagining situations. But, as we have said before, the story seems at least partially auto-biographical. The reader feels Mr. Benet is writing more or less about himself and trying to picture how he would react to certain situations; that is, about a kind of ideal himself with whom he is not fully acquainted--or at least whom he is reticent about letting anyone but himself know intimately. The irony...
...there are others which, either be cause of subject or treatment, are not nearly so effective. The whole impression is Scott-Fitzgeraldish, but avoids many of the superficialities of "This Side of Paradise". After all, however, one wonders if the real story is not yet to be told, as Phillip and Sylvia are left on the site of their house-to-be-built with their beginnings of wisdom. One wonders what they are going to do with that wisdom...
...patronesses is as follows: Mrs. C. C. Barnes of Boston, Mrs. W. C. Baylies of Boston, Mrs. H. S. Bradford of Brookline, Mrs. Addison Brown of New York City, Mrs. F. L. Bullard of Melrose Highlands, Mrs. T. J. Coolidge of Boston, Mrs. G. W. Cram of Cambridge, Mrs. Phillip Gardener of Boston, Mrs. D. C. Bolder of New Orleans, La., Mrs. L. V. Lockwood of Riverside, Conn., Mrs. A. L. Lowell of Cambridge, Mrs. G. S. Mandell of Boston, Mrs. L. B. McCagg of New York City, Mrs. Thomas Newhall of Radnor, Pa., Mrs. A. B. Potter of Boston...
Female Chorus: R. S. Ward '21, G. McD. Weeks Jr. '21, M. P. Davis '21, A. B. Field '22, O. S. Leland '22, R. F. Lesher '22, C. R. Burgin '21, C. W. Baker '21, G. B. Cabot '22, H. C. Brown '21, A. B. Nichols '21, Phillip Hofer...