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...William Whitman, 3d. '22, who reviews the April issue of the Advocate coming out today, was president of the Advocate board in 1921-22. He is now with the Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston...
...will probably be admitted by both sides that descriptions of this nature are not aesthetically beautiful, and that Walt Whitman cannot always be read in the parlor, but in this case the remedy seems worse than the disease. Amputation of "disgusting" passages in accepted classics has been attempted in secondary schools with utterly insipid results. To apply this principle to modern literature seems but a new version of the old story of that very characteristic man who cut off his nose to spite his face. And quite apart a host of ethical objections to a policy of rigorous censorship...
...possible to account for the enigma of Walt Whitman's conflicting reputations in Europe and in America in terms of the exaggerated respect which Americans hold for most things European and the concomitant deprecation of most things American. Old books, old hats, and old families are the better for a European origin. Certainly all visitors to the New World, from Columbus to Israel Zangwill, have commented with chary epigrams on this one commendable attribute of the natives. But respect is not synonymous with love; and it may be argued that too much respect and too little love for the European...
...writings of the smuggler Hancock become enshrined in the American Genesis; Daniel Boone becomes the leader of the lost in a new wilderness wandering; and the debates of Congress furnish the tediousness of a new Numbers. But the discussion that is already arising over the proposal that Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" be designated the American Psalms gives an indication of the keen competition that faces aspirants for a position in this modernistic All-American...
...Professor Ford necessitates several changes in the Social Ethics department. Social Ethics 7, a half-course on Rural Social Development scheduled to be given in the second half-year, will be omitted. Social Ethics 28, Management of Institutions and Welfare Agencies, will be in charge of Mr. Alfred F. Whitman '08, Executive Secretary of the Boston Children's Aid Association. Social Ethics 29, Community Organization, will be given by Mr. Maurice B. Hexter, A. M. '22, Executive Director of the Federated Jewish Charities of Boston. The two last named are graduate school courses regularly, given by Professor Ford...