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...Funny Colyum" in The New York World...
...conducts a "colyum"--in this case The Bowling Green in the New York Evening Post--must, we feel, have economical pangs at seeing so much copy go into the maw of the presses every day with so little return; so many quickly-jotted ideas that might really be turned into something lasting; so many little quips and literary furbelows that would be worthy to set off a finer dress. It is small wonder that sometimes these pieces are gathered together and swept into a volume, where they may play a sort of public journal to the authors, and buoy...
...Christopher Morley is a well known poet and essayist and is famous for his colyum, "The Bowling Green", on the editorial page of "The New York Evening Post". Among the most famous of his books of poems is "Songs of Little Houses". "Parnassus on Wheels" and "Shandygaff" are his best known collections of essays...
Sometimes we are tempted to believe in the irony of Fate; especially when, in the intense pre-examination era; Christopher Morley sees fit to ask, in his "Colyum" in the Evening Post (New York), "Why is it that a man who went to Harvard or Yale never forgets it?" To the undergraduate it seems almost like adding insult to injury to put forth such a question at the present time; there are certain days and nights indelibly impressed on our memories--and the shadow of the Widow we have always with us. The waters of Lethe are many miles away...
...refers familiarly to "Bozzy", and has a library of finely bound books with uncut leaves; and he finds it good form to twit Steve Benet's "Wisdom". Nevertheless there is real intellectual awareness at Yale, as noted above; although we question whether the fact that the "News" conducts a colyum is any particular sign of such interest. That is, we would question if it would not be thought that we are jealous...