Word: fictions
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Last week a report was issued. Soberly it noted the splendid progress of its child, Prohibition. Soberly it analyzed "the new corruption of novel and magazine fiction . . . perverted literature ... of an appalling character." Soberly it marked the "degradation of the American theatre" and the "conscienceless theatrical manager." Soberly it warned of "sport perversion, characterized by brutality or gambling...
...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...
...Fiction...
...absurd as it is untrue. Some capable investigator ought to examine this charge against the colleges for the benefit of the general public. Among those who do not know, this will be the only way to dispel an erroneous impression created by a certain type of current fiction on college life...
...Beta Kappa; most respected extra-curricular activity, Princetonian; favorite professor, McClellan; favorite preceptor, Nylander; favorite coach, Fitzpatrick; favorite dormitory, '79; favorite sport to watch, football; favorite sport to play, tennis; favorite novel, "Tom Jones"; favorite poem, "If"; favorite play, "Cyrano de Bergerac"; favorite movie, "The Woman of Paris"; favorite fiction writer, "Day" Edgar; favorite artist, Coles Phillips; favorite poet, Byron; worst poet, "Helz-Belz"; favorite newspaper, New York Times; favorite magazine, Saturday Evening Post...