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Last year there was much comment on the failure of class elections, due to the lack of interest by the necessary sixty percent of the class to cast their votes. The whole affair was exploited by the press as an instance of the traditional "Harvard Indifference". Various communications were written explaining that many students preferred not to vote, than to vote for men about whom they knew nothing. Campaign speeches were suggested each candidate to take the stump or soap-box and describe to an interested group of student listeners the principles on which he based his claim to popular...
When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote "This Side of Paradise", there was a great hue and cry; when "Flappers and Philosophers" appeared, there was still a hue, and somewhat less of a cry; "The Beautiful and Damned" evoked merely a cry;--the best comment on "Tales of the Jazz Age" is dead silence. However, this space must be filled, and a reviewer cannot write, like Hilaire Belloc, on "Nothing". But we will be brief. Perpend...
...value of the book. It is not conducive to the best study, for we note that the author of the above remarks did not continue them beyond the first chapter, and so, presumably, did not read further. Subsequent readers often waste much time in trying to decipher the pencilled comments. Even if all the witticisms were of the order of those mentioned above, there might be some excuse; but the average comment, and the most frequent one, is "to Hell with Yale". The sentiment is undoubtedly patriotic and shows that all this talk about "Harvard indifference" is greatly exaggerated...
...Take heed to avoid all those Games and Sports that are apt to take up much of thy time, or engage thy affections. He that spends all his life in Sports, is like one who wears nothing but fringes, and eats nothing but sauces." Such was Thomas Fuller's comment, a little less than three hundred years...
Favorable Comment on University...