Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussion of "The Critic and American Life" in the current issue of The Forum, Professor Irving Babbitt, after denouncing what he terms the "superior intellectual vaudeville" of Mr. H. L. Mencken and pointing out the ineffectuality of modern American criticism, hastens to show that the unsatisfactoriness of creative effort today is largely a result of the unsatisfactoriness of higher education. Consequently there is a lack of culture, a fact which renders Mr. Mencken's "verbal virtuosity" possible, and results in the creative instinct being stified in a welter of "idealism." Professor Babbitt in his cool analysis of facts succeeds...
...statistics of the Summer School show that there has been rapidly increasing demand for advance courses during the past five years...
...silk, lullabies, wit, jokes: HIT THE DECK, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE, MANHATTAN MARY, GOOD NEWS, SHOW BOAT, FUNNY FACE...
...seem likely that Harvard graduates have more difficulty securing satisfactory treatment from the world than the graduates of other colleges. Figures are perhaps available on this question, and it would be interesting to examine them. Very accurate such statistics could hardly be, but it seems likely that they would show very definitely that four years spent at college are not a gift-edged security against the rigours of the broadlinge a fact which needs perhaps some emphasis now that Seniors and other graduating students are about to be interviewed by employers-many of them not, at all "sold on" higher...
...score of 13 1-2 to 1-2. F. A. Clark '29 featured by scoring ten goals while R. B. Burnett ocC. and J. P. Cotton '29 each collected three tallies. The Artillery players got only one goal, scored by Needham. The final count, however, does not show the great lead which the Crimson team amassed, because of the point handicap and larger number of penalties given the University players...