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Jack London knew odd corners of America?but the America he knew has already altered. And the others who have tried of recent years have used the slick technique of the magazines or dropped into easy burlesque. The epic remains to be written?and it will not be an epic of easy circumstances. Too many of our moderns of promise are already cursed with ease?seeming tied to the same narrow slice of life where every one is more or less of a gentleman. True, the soil is coming into its own somewhat?and the men of the soil?...
...virtues, civic or otherwise, are the badge of the hay-stacks: that it is big enough and powerful enough and well heeled enough and enough of a wise guy to go to the devil more times than anybody else and still survive to take pride in the achievement. The slick ness and unctuousness of Mayor Hylan, one may presume, appeal to New York as so cordially representative of its own shrewdness and unmorality as to make their exaltation through him a fitting rebuke to more common sense and the weakness for decency...
...doubtful whether he excells Frye. He certainly is not as strong a man with the bat. Vaughn, left-fielder, has over Brickley the advantage of experience, and in addition, has proved a more consistent hitter. Captain Hardwick's impressive record as a conformed slugger overshadows Reilly's slick-work, but at third base the Yale man is undoubtedly the better. This is his third year on the team, and he has a record for sure, fast and spectacular felding, while Hardwick has been working under the disadvantage of a mid-season shift from left field. Reed, at short, has been...
With pleasure and a grateful sense that surprises do arise from the most unexpected quarters, the CRIMSON reads the latest number of the Lampoon. It is "succinctly slick...
...complaints about Harvard indifference are stale, flat, and alas! unprofitable. We all condemn selfishness in our neighbors and condone it in our ourselves. That is human nature, and Sam Slick says there is much human nature in all men; but we specialize in selfishness, and, like the hub of the wheel, move slowest; and if we progress at all it is by sheer force of inertia...