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William Dean Howells was the first realist. Quite different from the trenchant, sensual realism of Heminway or D. H. Lawrence. For his was, as Emerson has suggested, the harvest of the quiet eye. His novels were dull with the dull ache of life, or they held the mild amusement which enters the life of everyman. Things seem to stagnate, as in "The Chance Acquaintance" or "The Silver Wedding Journey," or they advance slowly forward with the inevitability of passing years...
Last year, Dr. Abraham Flexner, philosophical critic of educational systems, made a thorough survey of American, English, and German Universities, concentrating in large measure on the undergraduate college. In the present Atlantic Monthly he turns his attention specifically to the graduate schools of American Universities and with his usual trenchant insight finds them not even "within hailing distance of the university standard". For his criterion of the university Dr. Flexner turns back to the Johns Hopkins graduate school founded in 1876 by Daniel Coit Gilman. President Gilman's educational principles were few but sound. A graduate school should place...
...otherwise febrile and careless issue of the Harkness Hoot appears a forceful broadside against the Yale School of Drama. In this trenchant indictment of a strictly vocational institution glorified by an attractive title into a School of arts, the writer charges that the present institution was founded by money from Wall St. Alumni for the sole purpose of advertising their alma mater through its possession of a superior School of Drama...
Writing in the current Saturday Review, Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter self-confessed educational authority strokes a black N. G. on American colleges. With a trenchant promise that American colleges are mere scientific factories and with a world almanac reference to the effect that a million student attend them, he sweeps on with a flippant grandeur to evolve a series of serious charges. Offering as his proof a penchant for mossy Oxonian intellectuality and an unpalatable homily on football over-emphasis, he states dogmatically that "the American undergraduate has neither time nor energy for intellectual relations," that "the companionship...
...anecdote about himself is often as irksome to him as the well-directed digs of his Democratic opponents. If he had picked up the New York Herald Tribune last week and turned to the first page, second section, it is possible that the small Hoover mouth would have fallen. Trenchant Liberal Walter Lipmann had read Citizen Coolidge's cool renunciation of presidential aspirations in the Satevepost (TIME, Oct. 5), had detected therein no accolade for President Hoover but a singular difference in character between Citizen and President. Excerpts...