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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Caravan, first appearing in 1927, put out by its present board of editors and Critic Van Wyck Brooks, aimed to provide a "literary ferment" by publishing samples of the more advanced American literature, which otherwise readers of the Red Book might never know existed. The scheme took. The American Caravan has become an annual fixture. Among its contributors have been: Eugene O'Neill, Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Scott, Morley Callaghan, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Paul Green. Authors Evelyn Scott and Paul Green are again represented in the present edition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Caravan | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...Lawrence sees in the conflict a battle between the blood-consciousness of the white race and its own abstract intellect, which attempts to hunt and slay it: Mr. Percy Boynton sees in the whale all property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck Brooks has found in the white whale an image like that of Grendel in Beowulf, expressing the Northern consciousness of the hard fight against the elements; while for the disciple of Jung, the white whale is the symbol of the Unconscious which torments man, and yet is the source of all his proudest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Melville the Great | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...fall activities of the Freshman Physical Training Course well in the background, winter sports began recently with squash leading the field, a total of 170 first year men having signed up at Wadsworth House for this form of practice, it was announced last night by C. B. Yan Wyck, Secretary to the Department of Physical Education. Next in popularity among the Freshmen is winter crew, 107 men electing to row during the winter months. Special corrective exercises drew the next largest number of students, 104 being enrolled in this class. Every first year man who failed to get higher than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wadsworth House Figures Show Squash Is Most Popular Freshman Winter Sport--Crew and Exercises Rank Next | 12/21/1927 | See Source »

During the Christmas Recess all the buildings used for athletics will be open from 9 until 6 o'clock, except on December 25 and 26, and January 1 and 2, Van Wyck announced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wadsworth House Figures Show Squash Is Most Popular Freshman Winter Sport--Crew and Exercises Rank Next | 12/21/1927 | See Source »

Edited by Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford and Alfred Kreymborg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Books of Distinction AT THE COOP | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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