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...canons of good taste by daring to reply to his letter in yesterday's CRIMSON, and even lay myself open to the charge of writing another sarcastic and peevish communication. Mr. Cherington's letter was, of course, quite free from these faults which marred my recent letter on the Critic, and since I feel that a reply is in order, I shall strive to attain the level of gentlemanly polemic that he set yesterday...
...Critic is indeed deeply mortified to learn that it has trod on the toes of Mother Advocate. Certainly this was not its aim. From the beginning we have had not the slightest desire to bait a magazine so steeped in literary tradition and so encumbered with debts. But since Mr. H. M. Wade seems inclined to issue forth from behind the barricades conveniently provided by time and his creditors I suppose we upstarts must defend ourselves...
...even Mr. Wade himself is inclined to criticize the Critic as a magazine. His real complaint seems to be that the men who revived it are merely providing a duplicate service with the Advocate and are unfair in ignoring the Advocate in their statement of policy. This is after all rather a weak line of argument. For clearly the Advocate is not even distantly related to the Critic in either content or policy. Anyone who will take the trouble to examine the Advocate for the last two years will see almost at a glance that no matter what its stated...
...Critic does not presume, as Mr. H. M. Wade implies, to the arrogant undertaking of teaching Harvard men to think. But it does propose to provide an adequate forum for those Harvard men who already have been thinking for some time on matters of real and earthly importance. Former Advocate contributors now writing for the Critic and many others among the long-suffering reading public seem to feel the need for such a forum. We propose to do nothing more than to provide it. Not for a moment do we propose to invade the far away country in which...
...expel any boy for cause, may even recommend the dismissal of a master. Popular in the Midwest, Lawrenceville sends most of its graduates to nearby Princeton. Some Lawrence-villians: onetime U. S. Attorney-General William D. Mitchell, onetime Ambassador to Japan Roland S. Morris, Architect William A. Delano, Art Critic Homer Saint-Gaudens, Author Richard Halliburton, and the sons of Charles Gates Dawes, Mark Sullivan, Arthur Brisbane, William Randolph Hearst...