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...pure science. The interest of the "Post" is not. Believing with Dr. Penniman that a "university is a glorified factory" it suggests that "in giving money, prudent men desire to know in advance what knowledge it will buy what benefits it will confer." And here through the veneer the old surface shows. If the gown is to be guildered it must be a useful gown...
Transatlantic is a study of the passengers of a great liner on a voyage to the U. S., their problems and their interrelationship. There are, notably, Harry, young American with a continental veneer of snobbery; Burleigh, placid Britisher; Jennie, "good sport," life of the party...
...beneath its surface of modern industrial veneer still lingers in the South a survival of that earlier individuality. The characters have changed, but South is still South, as the two prize works have revealed. Just as Gray's introduction of nature into English poetry was the prelude to countless rhapsodies on nature by succeeding poets, just as Montesquieu's "Letters Persanes" prefaced many a book both in France and elsewhere in letter form, so it is probable that "Hell-Bent Fer Heaven" and "The Secret at the Crossroads" will open to American literature a new field a field rich...
...tear. . . . Swallowing hard, we escape from the prologue to the editorial page. What, O Lampy, Ibis, Blot! What has become of the magic pen? Where is the gentle flow of easy banter and the singular style that once outran alike sophomoric itchings and threadiness of subject? Such a bare veneer of it is the first editorial; and the rest, indeed, somewhat less than three paragraphs of silence. The style of Lampy has always been traditional. It must always be so; it must be perpetuated. To the limbo of Lampooniana, you editors who do not know it; to the limbo...
...taught is based the modern language requirements in Harvard College! Despairing of the possibility of ever teaching the American undergraduate to write his mother (or step-mother) tongue, the authorities still retain some hope that by making every student a tri-linguist they will give him at least the veneer of a literary education...