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...Harkness Tower and the Quadrangle?" gasps a freshman fresh from Cactus Plant, Arizona. "That's something like a college!" The critic is assertive and confident in his judgment. He has often heard the Yard spoken of as a salad of monstrosities, and just as often has heard Harkness Tower praised as the finest college building in America...
...that the sailor sons of sailing fathers cooped up far from shore satisfy in this way their insatiable New England longing for the ocean wave. In any case, President Coolidge is wrong; he must have a dark and subtle purpose in his mind. A Mussolini of fashion, another critic of lipstick and rolled stocking, a self-appointed censor of the beaches--who knows? That in the face of this sinister warning of a fell future purpose the Princeton men bravely declared that such trousers as theirs "were the thing among college men" is a theme for epic and song...
Walter Prichard Eaton, it is said, may be summoned to Harvard to staunch the wound made by Yale in its drama department. The hurt university could do few wiser things than to employ Mr. Eaton to succeed Professor Baker as a tutor to the dramatists. As a critic he has many of the better attributes a knowledge of life and the theatre, a sense of humor, a touch of sentiment concerning the plays and players and an influential way of writing and talking. He is not too proud to have a boyish affection for what he calls the "glamour...
...Wrote a critic in the St. James's Chronicle: "A very elegant picture of the Duchess of Devonshire, who in our opinion is by no means an elegant woman...
...Original Subscriber I feel privileged to call your attention to a criticism of the play They Knew What They Wanted (TIME, Jan. 12), in which your critic refers to San Francisco as "Frisco." Should this be quoted from the plays program, all is forgiven (as far as far as TIME is concerned); but should it not be, please do not allow TIME to stoop...