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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After devoting three paragraphs to the Preface, M. A. B., in his review of "Eight More Harvard Poets" in the February "Advocate", says that he hesitates before the poems themselves. One may well ask what he thinks he is about? But after one has finished the single column that remains, one wishes that he had hesitated longer. In striving for a judicial tone he is led to say that Joel Rogers's verse is bolstered by music, "rick music"--"and by sincerity". Munificent patronage,--but a betrayal of his incapacity to comprehend the very word. One of his phrases, "intellectualized...
...etiquette, savors of a loyal irrelevance. An apology is doubtless due the board from the editors of the anthology for their disregard of such lofty aesthetic standards. M. A. B. says the Poetry Society is in no way expressive of student taste. This is a compliment. He ends his review with the word, envy. This is not without psychological significance...
...before it. Heywood, Broun John Farrar, George Chappell, and their fellow-conspirators have reared it out of an excellent brand of ektoplasm, and the creature stands, menacingly real, before the eyes of the critics who are watching college-bred literature. The latest appearance of the ghost was in a review (by one of the conspirators) of the "Eight More Harvard Poets". After declaring that of course "there is nothing in the book approaching the fire and genius of the Benets of Yale", he enters into a charming digression which explains, from his point of view, the manifest superiority of Yale...
...detailed review of the University athletic program during the year 1921-22 forms the substance of Mr. W. H. Geer's report to President Lowell...
...annual report to the President of the University; Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75, Chairman of the Athletic Committee, gives a general review of the principal activities of the committee during the past year. He analyses carefully several of the difficult problems which have attracted the committee's attention, dwelling particularly on the question of professionalism among athletes and managerial competitions...