Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...this topic is holding just now in the university world is the fact that it was the theme of two thirds of all the essays submitted. The submerged tenth, it would thus appear, is not altogether without hope of emerging from the obscurity that is the lot of the harmless, necessary scholar, into something of the light that beats so fiercely upon a gridiron. The griev- ance of these intellectuals is not simply the monopoly of college yells and admiring glances that greet the football captain wherever he is so gracious as to show himself. Their complaint goes deeper...
...Rogers' personages are more amusing in their names and their slang than in their craft. The German tag with the questioning accent is a high point of humour. It is to be feared, however, that to the reviewer of "Man and Superman" it might seem like "one of the harmless stupidities with which Shaw covers his essentially undramatic plot...
...Review of the Yale Season" appears to be the carefully consecutive story of a team which the author does not overrate. The fiction, "Formation Z" and "Fussing the Game" presents in new combinations the never-failing elements of gridiron and girl. The short editorial article, though not nutritious, is harmless and pleasantly flavored...