Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...admittedly difficult to get our undergraduate to read any sort of professed literary endeavor". In the cir- cumstances, should such a paper try to keep its place in the sun by catering "to the tastes of the majority"-- or should it run the risk of suicide and print "stuff after the manner of the Dial in its wildest moments...
...Bailey seems to advocate a kind of half-hearted compromise: And in this, the present reviewer believes him to be mistaken, There are plenty of undergraduates who are keenly interested in "aesthetic outpourings", or stuff after the manner of the Dial. The undergraduate is not afraid of literature. Bad literature, yes: but that is another matter. The trouble with most college literary magazines is that they do try to compromise--that they are timid, and afraid (this fear itself being philistine) to go all out for literary distinction. Playing safe, they achieve a kind of dreary neutrality...
...This stuff is terrible. If I had a subscription I would cancel...
...think will win? Yale has to edge, and if they show the stuff we watched last Saturday, will be easy victors. On they other hand Harvard always puts up its best game against the Blue as in the 1925 game...
...wealth of descriptive and dramatic detail,--excerpts from psychiatrists' reports, selections from letters, transcripts from diaries, bits of testimony,--worked in with the essential facts of each crime. And so skillfully is it done that the imaginings of a Conan Doyle or an Arthur Train seem like poor, pale stuff in comparison...