Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Wyck Brooks...
...good points, but they do not always bear on the objections they are meant to answer. Team-play does indeed cultivate honesty and unselfishness, but it is quite possible without the commercializing of athletics, which it is here used to defend. In "The Poet who Dies Young," Van Wyck Brooks makes a plea against materialism. Compared with Mr. Brook's writing of last year, this retains the valuable part of his subtlety and delicacy of expression, and shows a desirable gain in clearness of outline and definition of thought, even if the style is not yet quite natural...
...title of the leading article of the issue, the second installment of a series called "Varied Outlooks" and presenting various points of view of college life. There is no reason why such expressions should not be given and received in the Advocate with candor and benefit. Mr. Van Wyck Brooks' defence of the type of mind indicated by a fair understanding of the word "aesthetic" becomes not so specialized a view as he forecasts. He is as abhorrent of "new culture" as he is severe towards the "coarse mind"; and the "poser" wherever found, whether he reads Pierre Loti...
...Religion of Spring," by Van Wyck Brooks, is a haze of vague expression and puffs of thought. It impresses one like that admirable Turner picture, "Steam and Fog." The longest of three short poems is one by J. H. Wheelock, "The Close of Mass." This has the quality of good poetry, in that it will bear re-reading and inspires thought...
...which appeared yesterday, contains the following article: Editorials; "Storm," by H. S. Wyndham-Gittens '06; "Stung," by H. D. Chandler '06; "The Ballad of Those That Mock," by J. Hinckley '06; "Harvard Types, 2, Our Friend Brattle Hall," by J. H. B.; "The Rest of the Circle," by Van Wyck Brooks '08; "A Freshman's Letters Home," by E. D. B.; "To a Man of Pompeii," by Van Wyck Brooks...