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...incantations have been chanted before it. Heywood, Broun John Farrar, George Chappell, and their fellow-conspirators have reared it out of an excellent brand of ektoplasm, and the creature stands, menacingly real, before the eyes of the critics who are watching college-bred literature. The latest appearance of the ghost was in a review (by one of the conspirators) of the "Eight More Harvard Poets". After declaring that of course "there is nothing in the book approaching the fire and genius of the Benets of Yale", he enters into a charming digression which explains, from his point of view...
Since cock-crow and daylight have not been sufficient, the ghost must be dispersed, by the old device of hoax exposers; he must be confronted with self-comparisons, odious though they may be. First, in the Harvard scale, come the names of George Santayana, Percy McKaye, John Jay Chapman, Ed win Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost and Cale Young Rice. They, to be sure belong to the era before the ghost was raised; but they still manage to keep pace with the advancing generations. After the century mark stand such poets as Hermann Hagedorn. John Gould Fletcher, Arthur Davison Ficks...
...course any self-respecting ghost actively engaged in the business at present will understand at once the importance of this new ruling. Methods of the Victorian Age can no longer be tolerated. To be a success as a ghost today a presence must not only exist; it must proclaim itself, communicate on every possible occasion and, when out of breath, be ready with silent visitations. It must also be prepared at any time to submit to scientific analysis. There is no telling when a call may come in for an interview with the Shrouded Lady of Edgely Manor, Hants...
This new official recognition, combined with a little necessary livening up in the mental attitude, gives every assurance that the ghost industry of Great Britain can hope in the near future to compete on equal terms with the Mayflower relic monopoly in America, and, with Pilgrim spoons and Pilgrim shoebuckles being dug up in every corner of the States from Orono to Texarkana, even the most ambitious ghost could not hope for a brighter business forecast...
Referring to the character of Caesar himself as portrayed in Shakespere's tragedy, Professor Kittredge stated that although Caesar was murdered comparatively early in the play, his spirit infiuenced all the rest of the drama to the tragedy at Philippi. When the ghost of Caesar appears to Brutus on the eve of Philippi," said Professor Kittredge, "it appears as realistic to Brutus as if Caesar were there in person. His spirit pervades the drama as truly after death as before...