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...most outspoken critics of their own works seem to be the college educators of today, their attitude towards college education being very strange and unusual. A well-known weekly publication comments on the fact that when three or more educators get together they regularly denounce the present-day college and ridicule, a large proportion of the college students, saying that they ought to be at work somewhere...
Forum, with its 90,000 circulation and bountiful advertising, has little to gain by the merger, save to clear its cluttered field of one element of competition, and speed the swing of public taste away from the Victorian "genteel literary magazine" toward the virile, provocative medium for present-day skeptics. The joint title, Forum & Century will not affect its tactics while Editor Henry Goddard Leach remains...
While modern historians set down records of present-day doings, antiquarians with picks and shovels scratch the earths surface, attempt to fill gaps in early man's history. Digging expeditions planned, afoot or lately returned include the following...
Critics of present-day institutions of learning are too apt to consider the college as a meditative brooding-machine for the hatching of bread-winners. Not until undergraduates realize that school, college, and later life are a continuous curve, not until graduates cease to separate college from the "great world" will these critics cease to be right...
...Author. Osbert Sitwell, poet, novelist, playwright, one of the three enfants terribles of present-day English literature (the other two: Brother Sacheverell, Sister Edith) is the eldest son of a baronet, was educated at Eton, served in the War with the Grenadier Guards. Like his brother, his sister, he is tall, pale, has thin lips, restless hands; unassailable socially, he delights in flouting convention. The English Who's Who lists his recreations as: "Regretting the Bourbons, Repartee, and Tu Quoque." Once an inveterate golfer and left handed cricketer, he now, according to his own statement has "abandant all other...