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...Auslander's poem contains some brilliant lines, although to borrow the language of golf he is inclined to press. The rest of the poems are ably done. The editorials are uneven; Mr. Whitman's essay on snobs is pleasant and ingenious; the sketches are amusing...

Author: By F. L. Allen ., | Title: COLLEGE MUST DEVELOP MEN EAGER TO WRITE | 10/6/1921 | See Source »

...energy to stimulate the unusual man man to do his utmost. Certain it is, in any case, that Harvard writing today needs a general intellectual atmosphere more favorable to literary production. Yale has had such an atmosphere for many years, whether because of its Yale Review, its Yale University Press, or some other influence it is hard to say; somebody has said that at New Haven men of discrimination like to buy books of poetry and belles-lettres, while at Harvard they buy mainly books on political and economic affairs. If the College is to be anything but a literary...

Author: By F. L. Allen ., | Title: COLLEGE MUST DEVELOP MEN EAGER TO WRITE | 10/6/1921 | See Source »

...Viscount could have had an audience of millions, and it is a pity that he did not have such as audience. That is what the press is for. Boston Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Restricted Lord Bryce | 9/30/1921 | See Source »

...Theatres. Arlington, Beach 4520 Colonial, Beach 0411 Copley, Back Bay 5518 Hollis, Beach 0131 Keith's, Beach 1724 Majestic, Beach 4520 Opera House, Beach 4520 Plymouth, Beach 4520 Shubert, Beach 4520 Selwyn, Beach 193 Symphony Hall, Back Bay 1492 Tremont, Beach 0608 Wilbur, Beach 4520 Boston Papers. Associated Press, Fort Hill 0400 Boston Daily Advertiser, Beach 7520 Boston American, Main 5180 Boston Globe, Main 5721 Boston Herald, Beach 3000 Boston Post, Main 1004 and 7400 Boston Record, Main 2470 Boston Transcript, Main 6950 Boston Traveler, Beach 3000 Christian Science Monitor, Back Bay 4330 CAMBRIDGE General. Co-operative Society, Univ...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON 1921-1922 TELEPHONE DIRECTORY | 9/30/1921 | See Source »

...Press reports received recently in this country state that Guatemala has decided to abandon the use of subsidiary coins made of hard rubber, and is to adopt coins of German manufacture which are to be made of porcelain. No longer can the spendthrift Guatemalan carelessly toss his extra pesos to the street urchins, knowing that if they fail to catch them on the fly they will get them on the rebound; now, alas, the coins upon striking the paving will be shattered into a thousand pleces, valueless as a means of exchange and effective only in puncturing automobile tires...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "BREAK, BREAK, BREAK--" | 6/16/1921 | See Source »