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...Literary Fallacy consists of five lectures given by DeVoto. Purportedly a re-examination of the literary '20s, most of it is given over to a vehement tirade, strident as a soapbox oration, against Van Wyck Brooks and his The Flowering of New England. What may have puzzled Indiana students, and is likely to puzzle readers who pay $2.50 to share their experience, is Mr. DeVoto's belligerence. With a chip on his shoulder the size of a two-by-four, with many a dubious assertion insisted on with the finality of the village atheist, and with sideswipes...
Nevertheless Critic DeVoto then quotes with approval Van Wyck Brooks's diagnosis of what was wrong with much of that writing: "Writers have ceased to be voices of the people. . . . Preponderantly, our literature of the last quarter-century has been the expression of self-conscious intellectuals who do not even wish to be voices of the people. Some of these writers have labored for the people; they have fought valiant fights for social justice. But their perceptions have not been of the people. . . . The literary mind of our time is sick. It has lost its roots in the soil...
...periods of conditioning will be sufficient this week, it was announced last night by Clarence B. Van Wyck, secretary of the Physical Education Department. Attention was also called to the fact that all exemptions granted last term on the basis of a heavy schedule have now expired and anyone desiring renewals this term must apply to the Physical Education Department...
Freshmen who passed their step test in the last week of August are eligible for House athletics, soccer, single sculling, tennis or swimming, Clarence B. Van Wyck, Secretary to the Department of Physical Education, announced yesterday. At present there are no openings for new men in crew, due to an overcrowded situation...
Reversing the position of July 1, the Hygiene Department announced this week that a full credit would be given for an hour of swimming without calisthenics, as was the case last term. Clarence B. Van Wyck, Secretary to the Physical Education Department, said that the program was changed because of the confusion caused by having two different classes, one upstairs, and the other down in the pool...