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...following review of the second issue of the Harvard Critic, which appears today, was written especially for the Crimson by A. N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government...
...with some trepidation that the Faculty reviewer picks up an undergraduate publication called "The Harvard Critic." But this is different. It is not the Faculty that is the target of these critics. No a single member of the Faculty is held up to public contumely and two of the professors even receive honorable mention. Professor Whitehead's latest volume of philosophy is the subject of high praise by one of the editors, and Professor Henderson's course in the history of science is moderately praised by Mr. John Des Passes, which is very high praise indeed...
...chief object of criticism, however, is the undergraduate himself. The leading editorial heaps scorn upon the "indifferent," the "deb-chasers," and the "grade-grubbers," while special articles expose the short-comings of the "final" club men and the Phi Beta Kappa. The case of the "final" club men seems even more hopeless. The critic of final club mentality is uncertain whether their low scholastic standing, for which statistical proof is offered, is the consequence of congenital mental inferiority or absorption in social activities or general "indifference." In other articles a tribute is paid to the commercial tutors for their services...
...evident that these latest Harvard critics are not so much interested in criticizing the University as the world outside. This is a good sign. These particular critics are very critical of the present management. Their special antipathy seems to be the "middle class." The leading editorial dubs the middle class "over-stuffed" and also "vast, characterless, and self-satisfied." Another of the editors denounces Walter Lippmann as "no more nor less than the Brisbane of the intelligentsia," intimating that he too has become excessively middle-class. The author of an article entitled, "Hell and Farewell: The End of Social Democracy...
...literary-quick "returns" are easy to get. Sound literary instructions, especially by mail, at any price is one of the most difficult things in the world to deliver. No layman can believe that a professional critic pronounces upon literary work for actual money; the assumption is that because reading is a recreation, any talk concerning reading must be recreation to all men. No one who doesn't like to work for nothing should ever become a literary critic and no one should answer offers to teach anything by mail without having a personal pedigree, bibliography and bank statement from...