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...expatriate of the first diaspora (circa 1880). Smith does not like expatriates of the second dispersion. Least of all does he like their chief anti-Miltonians, Expatriates Ezra Pound and Thomas Stearns Eliot. They, he charges, are Delilahs in a cunning campaign to shear the literary locks of the Puritan poetic Samson. Once more Smith raises the now famous question: Why does Ezra Pound...
Pound has never minced words about Milton. He dislikes the Puritan epicist for "his asinine bigotry, his beastly hebraism, the coarseness of his mentality." Says Smith, "Mr. Eliot is far too urbane to express his disapproval in such Miltonic terms," but he too carries on a "deft, inconspicuous sniping," has mentioned Dryden as being "far below Shakespeare, and even below Milton." "Note," cries vigilant Defender Smith, "the tiny drop of poison in the phrase . . . 'even Milton...
Winthrop won the 1940 contest from Davenport College. Since this year's puritan sextet is at least as good as last year's. Timothy Dwight will have to have improved a good bit over last year in order to win. However, it is hard to forecast House games, since there is no way of checking the two teams by comparative scores...
Left. By Evander Berry Wall, last of the Gay Nineties dandies, who died expatriate in Monte Carlo last May after spending millions, hobnobbing with royalty, playing poker with World War I generals, bummeling from casino to racecourse, writing his lavendered memoirs (Neither Pest nor Puritan): an estate "not exceeding...
...plot centers around the attempts of Puritan Cotton Mather '78 to become president of Harvard. All his efforts are foiled, however, and a group of students and professors, by clever stratagem, prevent his election...