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...paid to the commercial tutors for their services in keeping the sons of prominent families in college and the plight of the puritanical "sub-deb" is lamented from the stand-point of Manhattan paganism. An interesting review of a recent novel about pre-Harkness Harvard by George A. Weller '29, describes the book as the "swan song of the old houseless Harvard already strange to this succeeding college generation." Strange indeed it does seem already! A full-length article on the houses by one of the house head-tutors takes the house plan for granted and devotes itself mainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLCOMBE FINDS CRITIC DAMNS UNDERGRADUATE | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...LOVE-George Anthony Weller-Smith & Haas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Only Gliding | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...Author Weller's compendious calendar starts in September, with a Lampoon editor coming back early to get out the Freshman number; it ends with a senior, reluctant to move out at the end of the college year, barricading himself in his room against the janitor and his minions. Between are 421 closely printed pages, a kaleidoscopic camera's eye that picks out almost every type of individual and circumstance to be found in a big modern university. The book's coherence suffers from its multiplicity of interests and characters which mingle but never really meet. What story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Only Gliding | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...first novel of George Weller '29, "Not to Eat, Not for Love," will be published on April 20th by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas. The story is built around the life of a Harvard Junior, and is a brilliant satire of modern college life. Weller was an editor of the CRIMSON, he played football and baseball, and wrote the 1929 Hasty Pudding play. Since leaving college, he has worked his way around the world, and is now covering the Insull case in Athens for the New York Times. Already critics have acclaimed it the best novel of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/29/1933 | See Source »

Score Harvard 59, Andover 19. Goals--Ernst, Weiss, Borry 2. Comfort 5, Silsby 4, Sherwood, Higgins, Grady 11, Howe 2, McLean, Weller 2, Kellogg, Haviland. Fouls--Confort 2, Silsby 2, Wills, Sherwood, Grady, Howe 2, McLean 2, McElroy. Referee--Parker. Time--Two 20-minute periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN BASKETBALL TEAM DOWNS ANDOVER | 3/2/1933 | See Source »

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