Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...title essay and that on "The Critic and American Life" bear a marked similarity. Professor Babbitt tells the present age that it is denying standards, repudiating, as did the earliest romanticists, the Christian and humanist traditions. Untraditional as we believe ourselves today, we are as confused as any men of a century ago. We are the victims of a "jazzy impressionism;" "still", he admits, "our naturalistic deliquescence has probably not gone so far as one might infer from poetry like that of Mr. Sandburg or fiction like that of Mr. Dos Passos." When one reads the ponderous latinities into which...
Basically Professor Babbitt's criticism is the same as it was some years ago, but Mencken is out of fashion, and his remarks mean far less to the contemporary student and critic than Professor Babbitt would have us believe. Essays on the primitivism of Wordsworth, on Coleridge and Dr. Johnson and the imagination, are studies more immediately interesting to the student of literature. Professor Lowes comes in for his share of criticism in the former essay, and Professor Carpenter is nicked once in the course of the book. All in all, however, they fare better than do Rebecca West...
...subject. "The whole subject . . . is full of pitfalls," he writes. "Rousseauistic romanticism has had an important influence in the Far East," and the teachings of Lao-tze have given China a primitivistic tradition of their own, similar to that which he has traced in the West. An undergraduate essay last year traced the romanticism arising from a false conception of Greece and the Greeks; we should welcome one treating the Chinese and Indian problems. One can but hope that Professor Babbitt will continue his studies in the Far East until he is able to supplement his books in other fields...
Only five weeks remain for students who wish to enter the editorial competition that the Intercollegian is conducting to obtain constructive student opinion on the liquor question. Although the competition does not close until April 20, 1932, it is first necessary to have the essay published in a local paper or magazine, preferably a college publication...
...recent contest to determine the problem of disarmament brought excellent suggestions that even authorities had never proposed from the undergraduate body of American colleges. The essay must not be a rehashing of trite truths that 12 years of prohibition have brought to our attention, but an intelligently handled discussion of the issues involved, the strength and weaknesses of various plans, and a practicable, constructive, and original expedient which will solve the problem...