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...what is 'great'? It is fair to the members of the Crime Club, is it fair to posterity for me to sit here and select the 'great'? Man is fallible. What if some mute, inglorious, but potential Has Rohmer is smothered beneath my own relish of Mary Roberts Rinehart? When my last manuscript is read, and I meet the Great Judge of the manuscript of life, shall I have made no errors of omission." One of the bitterest things in the publishing business, it is said, is that one never Knows. Perhaps the crime publishing business is the innocent victim...
Humor and Pathos in Rinehart Case...
Take the famous Rinehart tradition, for instance. The sleepy Senior roused from his slumbers at midnight by the wailing echoes across the Yard wonders if there was ever a time when a Senior might put his head out of the window of a Yard dormitory and shout the magic word "Rinehart" without anywhere from two to 20 other Seniors growling or roaring or barking the same word in reply. There was such a time, and that only about 30 years ago. The pathetic tale of the lonely student who heard other students being called by friends, but was never called...
...Rinehart Outs Gibson Girl...
Before the Rinehart custom began, however, there was another means of getting students to put their heads out of the windows and shout. All through the nineteenth century, whenever there came across the Yard a woman, be she young, middle-aged, or old and wrinkled, the cry went forth "Heads Out!" and windows were flung up as other students took up the shout. With the coming of the Gibson girl to the "Annex"--in other words Radcliffe--and the end of the Victorian age, the number of female figures in the Yard increased so much that this custom became impractical...