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PROFESSOR - Stanley Johnson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). At Vanderbilt University, they well recall young Instructor Johnson. He has turned novelist since he left the English Faculty, but still lives in Nashville, Tenn. Reading his gentle arraignment of professorial hypocrisy, they will scowl, or be enthusiastic, self-consciously. The decline and fall of the soul of Dr. J. Tanksley Parkhurst, who took his Chaucer and his reputation seriously enough to become Dean, is staged at Thurston College, New England; but the winters are mild, the "you-alls" plentiful. Vanderbilt will take it personally. At other colleges, if the book is read, more...
...moose-heads on the wall may take on a sardonic grin, the face of our noted graduate may scowl from the canvas, the dowagers may fall asleep, and the tenderest member of the class become inebriated on the lemonade punch, but the music will not cease, nor the rhythmic footsteps falter. It is a great life. We may become leaders of the world in after years, but only once may we be Juniors at the dance. In later times we shall tell our children and our children's children of the glories of that magnificent ball, when the daughters...