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...critical acumen. It often appeared when Timothy was planning his "major" novels and was always there when he sat, scornfully dignified, at visiting shows. Gradually it was erased by employers, women and the flopping of Timothy's first play. When the last line disappeared and Timothy became a humble cub reporter, his best best-girl was glad. The doings of the local Hyacinth Club contribute juicy bits of satire on small-town "artiness", but for the most part it appears that the indulgent Messrs. Scribner have given light to an unimpressive autobiography...
...newspaperman of fiction is either "hardboiled" or a cub in the seventh heaven of innocence. But the newspaperman in life is generally a man whose chief interest is his own business of gathering news and an amazing admiration for those who adhere to the fundamentals of that business. He is likewise susceptible to the most fundamental pathos...
Morning, noon, night, midnight? the stream of cranks in and out of newspaper offices is in perpetual motion. Occasionally, one of them succeeds in having a young cub sent out to hear his tale...
Members of the University Glee Cub will act as coaches for the Freshman choruses. The various coaches for the different halls are: for Smith C. S. Smith '28; for Gore, G. S. Station '27; for Standish, R. P. MacFadden '26. All the residents of the Freshman dormitories are eligible for the choruses. According to Dr. A. W. Wright '17, there will be retrials for the hall choruses and the large the chorus, the better the chance of winning. The only competition in connection with the Jubilee singing will be for the chorus leaders, for whom trials will be held...
...moderate consideration, any city editor can now have a model of sincere, constructive, idealistic thought and writing against which to contrast the "blowsy," "slipshod" language of the news columns, the "drivel" he lets "slide under his nose," the "transparent absurdities," the "trivialities and puerilities." To his vulgar, ignorant cub reporter, a city editor may now say: "Go thou and read our column by Mr. Mencken and be a better...