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...them can turn the tide from ordinary piffle, and keep the tone of the conversation high. By developing a discussion into something valuable, the best in student life is often expressed. From the ordinary student rocker in the top story of a rooming house may be expressed in college slang, truths which are as great as any which were exhaled from the Greek oracles. Students thus decide to their own satisfaction some of the fundamental questions which otherwise they might never have figured out. A wealth and variety of experiences, and a healthy difference of opinion, all of these...
...perhaps read to the end to discover whether the unconscious man may be the murderer's victim recrudescent. We are not greatly gratified at the final revelation, since it has been intimated that the notices are everywhere. Mr. Rogers' personages are more amusing in their names and their slang than in their craft. The German tag with the questioning accent is a high point of humour. It is to be feared, however, that to the reviewer of "Man and Superman" it might seem like "one of the harmless stupidities with which Shaw covers his essentially undramatic plot...
...article on "College Criticism and Literary Slang," re-enforced by the editorial comment, offers some pertinent suggestions. Apart from considerations of the value to literature of the critical essay, the question as a practical matter for undergraduates reduces itself to this: nine out of every ten men--the proportion is probably much larger--when they have occasion after leaving college to commit themselves to print, do so in some form of the essay. As furnishing discipline in this form of writing, no single subject is more interesting to students themselves and to their possible public than literary criticism. With regard...
...that the new issue sins more grievously than its predecessors in this respect. Of the two pieces of criticism here published, that by S. Hale has no more than the usual amount of literary slang, and if most of what he has to say of William Watson's poetry is fairly obvious, it is at least clearly thought out. W. A. Green's "The Versatile Mr. Kipling," is less satisfactory. He is guilty of saying that "in 'Gentleman Rankers' there is a more serious turn of finality" than in "the whimsically pathetic protest of 'Tommy'." If the Monthly...
...following books are missing from the Library of the Union and should be returned immediately: "Fables in Slang," "Encyclopaedia of Etiquette," "Tom Brown's School Days," "Tom Brown at Oxford," "The Mystery of the Woods," "The Story That the Keg Told Me," "Crown of Wild Olive," "Queen of the Air," "Wages and Capital," "English Poets...