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...critic who is also a poet is generally the best critic of poetry. The history of English literature affords numerous examples of this happy marriage of creative faculties; unfortunately, we have comparatively few men today who have given sufficient evidence of their abilities in both capacities to warrant their being accepted as inheritors of that tradition. None, however, would question Mark Van Doren's right to be so described...
John Tunis '11, investigator and critic of Big Three football, is optimistic about the new Inter-University Committee on Eligibility announced by the Presidents of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton last weekend, according to a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday...
...hiring & firing policies when he adopted a "Magna Charta" drafted by a faculty committee (TIME, June 5). But their hopes were quickly dashed, for at term's end the University fired ten popular assistant professors, including Ernest Simmons, President of Harvard's Teachers Union, and Critic Theodore Spencer. (Professor Spencer thereupon landed a lifetime appointment at Cambridge University, was hired back by Harvard as visiting lecturer for a year...
...once remarked to a critic that if I were to name the four or five violinists whom I considered the greatest artists, he wouldn't recognize the names of more than one or two of them...
With Fats, on the other hand, there's no doubt whatsoever about what's coming. When he hits a bass note, it stays hit--the result being a fine jump rhythm that literally pushes a band along. Hugues Panaissie, the famous French swing critic, has long ranked Fats right with Earl Hines as the greatest, not only in orchestra, but in solo work...