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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following review of the new Harvard Critic was written for the CRIMSON by B. F. Wright, assistant professor of government. The first issue of the Critic will appear upon the newstands today. The sheet will appear monthly for an indefinite time...
...Widener by the National Student League together with a brief criticism of this statement by the Critic, a 'model' re- view of History 1, a satirical fable, four communications from well known persons dealing with the relations between college and public life, an essay on Marx, and a review of Mr. James M. Beck's 'Wonderland of Democracy...
...With the exception of Dr. Elsbree's book review, a clear and effective analysis of the confusions in Representative Beck's political thinking, the contributions are all from students. As might be expected, they are of uneven quality. To the present reviewer, Mr. John P. Coolidge's 'Muddled Objectives' is the most interesting. Mr. James W. Fessler's 'Eliot and Lowell' is a survey of well-known developments in Harvard since 1869 without much critical examination of the problem which he suggests, the special needs of the more mature and interested students. Mr. Norton E. Long's 'Humanist Critique...
...weeks before, Lee had surrendered to Grant. The generous terms Sherman gave Johnston (at the conference they were soon "Cump" and "Joe") raised a howl in the North, changed Sherman overnight from a byword to a hissing. But by the time of the Grand Army review in Washington they were cheering him again. The review took two days: the Army of the Potomac first, then the Army of the West. Sherman was very anxious that his men should outmarch the Easterners; but he led the column, would not turn his head to look. Finally, unable to stand the suspense...
Brightly clothed in canary an intellectual review caught his eye. He toyed with it for a moment, turned it over, and was chilled by its complacent pseudosity. There was a weekly in a cover framed with the scarlet which advertised its contents; the Vagabond contemplated this seriously, but he remembered that it would be filled with cynical bad taste and journalisic perversions of the English language; this was no day to make allowances for a Yale education; Time was passed in judgment. Then there was that magazine in dull green; the Vagabond could taste bad gin, and the contents...