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When the proposal of publishing the paper was placed before the club members last night, an overwhelming majority of 13 to 3 approved it. A select few, who later were found to be interested in the Harvard Critic, opposed the new plans, but their objections were quickly checked by the remaining enthusiastic supporters of the future newspaper...
...recent questionable left on the undergraduate door-sill by the Harvard Critic reminds us that that defunct publication is stirring within its whited sepulchre. With what rosy promises they beguiled the eager freshmen into the wolf-tended folds of their subscribers; with what lurid phrases they depicted the Alpine peaks of journalism which they were about to scale! Tenacious memoirs will recollect that toy booklet which appeared last fall, so scholarly in its denatured, so anxiously emulous of its elder brethren. A column of humor painted the Lampoon's lily an article on Harvard indifference fairly stole Mother Advocate...
Most unfortunate of all, the apparent passage of the Critic will render any new attempt in this field increasingly difficult, since the past subscribers of that magazine would naturally be loath to risk their money on anew venture, and possible backing for another Fourth Publication could scarcely the expected to consider the precedent an suspicious omen for their hopes...
...that 2 and 2 make 5, it is unpatriotic to object, unless you suggest that 2 and 2 make 6 or 3. To insist they still make 4 is not 'helpful.' That is 'inaction'; that is standing still in the face of an emergency." Second critic was William Randolph Hearst, who in a radio broadcast from Los Angeles, after praising the President's intentions, condemned NRA practices by parable. Said he: "Indeed, the plight of business has been not unlike that of the young woman in the comedy act of Savoy and Brennan...
Like many another native critic, however, Nock is quick to defend the U. S. against "superficial" foreign criticism. "We have the finest things to be found anywhere, and the finest people in the world, plenty of them. . . . But the point is that with us such persons are wholly ineffectual; they have no influence; our society does not at all take its tone from them, directly or indirectly. ..." What riles him is such obtrusive phenomena as book-reviewers, who "have no idea whatever of the classification of books ... or of what makes them so. They also have no idea that...