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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once Truth is left behind, the section on Beauty rises somewhat in tone and approaches the level on which one expects to find observations on the other fellow's habits of mind. None except the most stodgy Babbitt can do aught but cry "Hear, hear" to an accusation that "the films are the literature of America". So it must seem to one who is convinced that "America has no indigenous literature" and no writers of genius save four, E. A. Poe, Walt Whitman, Hermann Melville, and Mark Twain. The only other Americans mentioned are a few whose "goodness consists mainly...

Author: By Dean ROBERT E. bacon, | Title: A Lion Among the Babbitts | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...section on Goodness, the author does not fall to include the familiar distribe on the passion in America for proyphylactic cleanliness. It is not extraordinary that our land of prohibitions both legal and moral, provides tantalizing stimulus for any sensitive observer, be he yokel or diplomat, foreigner or native wit. In this portion of the book alone does the author play the game he has chosen for though fairry adroit satire pinch-hits for the more rugged sincerity which any critical work presupposes he nevertheless concludes his observations in more commendable fashion than he approached his unfamiliar subject...

Author: By Dean ROBERT E. bacon, | Title: A Lion Among the Babbitts | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Naturally any broadening of scope must be recognized as a definite asset. In attempting to form a student body which will be really representative Harvard is merely carrying one step further the ideals on which she was originally founded. Any university aiming to serve no particular section but the entire country must needs enforce limits to her own enrollment. This Harvard has done. The Associated Club report would indicate that she is on the way to fulfilling her final...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW AREAS | 4/8/1927 | See Source »

...Agriculture in the future has as great possibilities in New England as it has in any other section of America", said William M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, in a special interview with the CRIMSON yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW ENGLAND HAS FARMING FUTURE | 4/8/1927 | See Source »

...Nearly all of the elements that determine the agricultural status of any section of the country forecast to us that New England, as an agricultural district, is very productive and has a very efficient farm system. Throughout the United States as a whole, 40 per cent of the land now farmed is farmed by land tenants. That is, only 60 per cent of the men in the country who own land, do their own farming on it. This, indeed, is a very low percentage for any country hoping for agricultural advancement. However, of the 160,000 farms in New England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW ENGLAND HAS FARMING FUTURE | 4/8/1927 | See Source »

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