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Robert Briffault's oldfashioned, awkwardly-written first novel cannot be compared with the great post-War novels on the same subject. Subtitled "The Days of Ignorance," it is an exhaustive 500-page picture of upper-class Europe in the decades before the War, with particular emphasis on those forces within society that were even then laying the ground for conflict. The emotional life of Julian Bern, precociously intelligent son of an English consul in Italy, began with a love affair with Zena, a Russian princess, whose noble family, perverse, gifted, incredibly wealthy, gave evidence of the fatal decadence...
...Clement Scott is even more convinced that the debacle of civilization is imminent; chronicling the various respects in which the appetite of the nation for blood, violence and horror has been assiduously whetted by the papers, the movies and "Esquire," he concludes in "America Tomorrow," that "the upper-class male" is about ready to attend revivals of gladitorial games, and suggests that "the decline of the American Republic" is thus evident...
...About 20 upper-class awards and the new Freshman Prize Fellowships were granted on this basis...
...Sophomore year he was secretary-treasurer of his class, an office since abolished with other upper-class posts, and during his Freshman year he was captain of the cross country team. His best showing on the track team has been made in the two-mile run where he has scored notable success...
Today the Crimson reprints the last of the Confidential Guides on Freshman half courses beginning in the second half-year and starts to comment on a few of the larger upper-class courses...