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...Book Review Section of TIME for the week of Feb. 8, the following statement was quoted from the book Tragic America by Theodore Dreiser...
None the less, his remarks anent the intellect of undergraduates seemed, to me, a little personal and I hastened to Widener to read the article in the Saturday Review to which you had reference. Immensely to my disappointment and somewhat to my relief 5 found the following sentence: "In this connection, I am not referring to the 'prestige' universities, as the Americans call them; these, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and perhaps, Cornell, are imitations of European or English models...
Writing in the current Saturday Review, Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter self-confessed educational authority strokes a black N. G. on American colleges. With a trenchant promise that American colleges are mere scientific factories and with a world almanac reference to the effect that a million student attend them, he sweeps on with a flippant grandeur to evolve a series of serious charges. Offering as his proof a penchant for mossy Oxonian intellectuality and an unpalatable homily on football over-emphasis, he states dogmatically that "the American undergraduate has neither time nor energy for intellectual relations," that "the companionship...
...London's Slade School, few years later philosophy under Bergson at the College de France. In 1914 he exhibited paintings in London that led Ezra Pound to hail him as leader of a new school: Vorticism. Vorticist Lewis, together with Pound, edited two numbers of a vitriolic review, Blast, before he enlisted with the Royal Artillery in the War. Since then, an enfant terrible in earnest, he has written many biting books: Tarr, The Art of Being Ruled, Time and the Western Man, The Childermass. By its enormous scope and exuberant execution The Apes of God should...
...purpose of this review to discuss the political qualifications of Mr. Roosevelt but it is difficult to see how a book of this kind can aid in his progress. Mr. Roosevelt's life is dramatic and important enough to make it the subject of an interesting account later on. Fortunately, his later biographer will not have to turn to the present book for reference...