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WILD ASSES-James G. Dunton- Small, Maynard ($2.00). Mr Dunton an immature Harvard graduate, smudges painfully. He has a turgid mind, a high-school style, scant humor, literary myopia. Concentrating on an underground foreground, he dimly depicts crass youths guzzling bad gin, shooting craps, reading cinema magazines, swapping low stories...
(Wild Asses)-"It is just about time for these money-making attacks on the younger generation to cease."
If Petronius is attracted to a boot-legging cafe which has already been raided once and to a orgiastic dancing club where whites and negroes mingle, it is not necessary for him to lug his weaknesses into print. These faults in literary taste are exactly those which another reviewer in...
Well, boys will be boys. Wild asses will flap their ears. But now that they have brayed it would seem only fairness to print no more letters over my signature; or, at least, to permit me to compose my own. George T. Chase Jr. '25.
"Wild Asses" the novel of undergraduate Harvard life which was to be issued February 21, will be delayed until March 14, according to the announcement of the Small-Maynard Co. who are the publishers. This book is written by James Gerald Dunston '23 and it is said to treat college...