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...your columns to call attention to a little bit of a book just out called "Who's Who and Who Isn't" by Charles T. Ryder '067 Ryder was probably the best poet at Harvard eight or nine years ago, and was the first to get the Garrison prize. This little book, in which he sixes up in funny poems the geniuses of the time, alphabetically arranged, is extremely clever, cheerful and full of delicate wit. The illustrations, made by the same author are most grotesquely amusing. Here is a literary trifle that will appeal to undergraduates and graduates alike...
...Barnes's article on "Organ Music and Organ Playing" presents in a readable manner some interesting biographical and historical observations. The tone of the article, however, is a bit partisan in favor of the organ and even somewhat dogmatic...
...Weston's reproduction of the neo-Cheoptic architecture of Harvard square was a remarkably good bit of scene painting...
...fact that American ragtime of the "raggiest" sort, in connection with waltzes and two-steps, is constantly used to offset the inevitable monotony of Oriental rhythm and melody; thus, the first virtue of this music is its variety. And furthermore it is charming and melodious music, sometimes a bit evasive as to tonality, but thoroughly spontaneous, and in at least a few instances quite distinguished--as in the opening theme of the dance used with the song "Modern Dances." "Conventionality," "Any Ragtime Tune," "My Own American Girl," and the "Finale" to the second act are much above the average...
...verse, Mr. Barlow also contributes the graceful "Of Age." Mr. Dazey's "On Mt. Ranleigh" is, unfortunately, uneven; contrast "we felt the magic of far spaces" with "Its fields were divided into squares of many colors," a phrase neither pleasing nor exact. It were better, perhaps, to regard this bit as experimental or imitative, in the light of some of Mr. Dazey's previous work...