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...literature. This is him seems to have been fired by Mr. Sigfried Sassoon "in full Tallyho" mood. Somehow "the fox hunting man" suggests Eric Maria Remarque; and after some preliminary remarks about "All Quiet on the Western Front," Mr. Lewis pitches into the real interest of the modern critic, the author's life and personality. Investigation has shown him that in 1919 Remarque wore a uniform of a Lieutenant of the 91st Infantry Regiment, whereas the President of the Reichs-archiv has officially denied that his name appears on record. And ten years later he was calling himself Frieherr...
...general run of manuscripts submitted to the Harvard Critic recently has been of such a petty nature, that the editors last night declared that the next issue of the publication might not appear until next fall. On the other hand, the magazine may be on the stands soon if a large enough number of satisfactory articles are submitted immediately...
...Criticism of H. R. 1491 was leveled at the fact that its principal benefits were limited to Federal Reserve member banks, thus excluding state banks which never joined the system. Chief critic was Louisiana's loud Long who offered an amendment whereby the President could sweep every bank in the land under the shelter of the Federal Reserve. Senator Glass whose antipathy toward Senator Long is so great that two days later he angrily tried to punch his nose, bitterly flayed the Long proposal. Ensuing wrangle...
...continue to believe that the study of Greek and Latin is largely a waste of time, at all events for the average student." H. L. Mencken, famous American writer and critic, told a CRIMSON reporter recently. Mencken, one of the greatest living authorities on the English language, has for many years pooh-poohed the importance of the classics as a background for the correct use of the English tongue...
...Maria Olszewska, who like Frida Leider used to sing with the Chicago Civic Opera; Basso Ludwig Hofmann whose Hagen was a model of malevolence. These three with Tenor Lauritz Melchior, the Siegfried, and Baritone Friedrich Schorr, who last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune: ". . . The score has not been so beautifully and movingly sung as regards its principal roles since that unforgettable March afternoon at the end of a century when Jean De Reszke's dying Siegfried turned our hearts to water . . . and the Olympian...