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...Dean of the College, John U. Monro '34, was a CRIMSON editor durfamous "Harvard Days Battle" of the CRIMSON and the upstart Harvard Journal in the early thirties. He speaks from personal experience in the following reflections...
...Heaven for him is hardly more than a garden and Hell hardly more than a grotto. It was not so much that Walpole couldn't penetrate Dr. Johnson's mind as that he couldn't stomach his manners. Boswell, despite his talents, remained something of an upstart from Scotland. Walpole-who always arrived ceremoniously as a guest-could only sniff at someone who banged on the door as a stranger...
...disaffected younger son of the land-rich, tax-poor Rodingham clan. His elder brother (Denholm Elliott), an elegant spendthrift who likes to know where his next cobwebby bottle of wine is coming from, plans to sell the 500-year-old family mansion. The buyer (Torin Thatcher) is an upstart real estate operator who likes to tromp on the middle of other people's sentences. But he has a couth and cultured wife (Kim Hunter) who likes to write. Donald writes too and, with a short story contest in view, he helps her work out the mechanics of a seemingly...
This hopeful appeal for aid is buried in a mass of editorial trivia in Volume 1, Number 1 of an upstart literary magazine which first made its appearance in January, 1873, sporting the title of Magenta...
...ever gone to bed--to find that paper had survived for fifty years and peared inordinately healthy. The New York Evening Post called the Crime "a fine and high-grade expression of the best student sentiment," while Mother Advocate, thinking back to the days when the paper was an upstart literary magazine, observed, "If child is father to the man, the two are often strangely dissimilar...