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Mencken's Book,* like the first five volumes of its series, lives up to its title. Author Mencken's style is that of a capable blacksmith. His hammer is large and noisy but it usually descends squarely on his anvil. So gritty are the workman's hands, so sweaty is his face that it is easy not to realize that for the most part he is engaged upon no more important a task than flattening pennies...
...note especially pitched for Pittsburgh. "There are still some," he said, "who sit apart, who do not see,, who cannot understand. To them our industrial life is the apotheosis of selfishness. They cannot realize that the rattle of the reaper, the buzz of the saw, the clang of the anvil, the roar of traffic are all part of a mighty symphony, not only of material but of spiritual progress. Out of them the nation is supporting its religious institutions, endowing its colleges, providing its charities, furnishing adornments of architecture, rearing its monuments, organizing its orchestras and encouraging its painting...
...Another Anvil Chorus...
...would revert again to the undergraduate life of the College and present for the consideration of men of the student body the conviction that here among us the influences are too much toward hammering out on the anvil of conventional sentiment 'a standardized type; Not that this tendency may not be too much present in American colleges in general, but our present concern is with Dartmouth life! Given common convictions against the cheap, the low, the unintelligent and the evil, the greater the variety of types and of attributes among Dartmouth men, the stronger the College will be. The evidence...
...addition to the class song each dormitory chorus will give two selections. Smith Halls will sing "There is a Tavern in the Town" and "Integer Vitae"; Standish Hall "Upidee" and "The Anvil Chorus"; and Gore Hall "The Spanish Cavalier" and "The Pilgrim's Chorus". The order in which the choruses will sing will be determined later...