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...York Tribune: "The story is at once serious and sentimental and is saved only from downright banality and absurdity by its swift, fine, unusual limning of character, its philosophical digressions, and its descriptive certainty and distinction...
...swift, breathless scherzo...
...listeners heard a rousing, but polished, reading of the First Movement, with its bold tossing about of thundrous rhythms, alternating with gentle, simple melodies, rising again and again in a seemingly endless succession of climaxes. Then came the swift, breathless scherzo (musical jest) ; then the long-drawn-out, meditative Slow Movement; finally, after fragments of what had gone before, the rich baritone voice of Mr. Royal Dadmun, chanted: "O friends, no more such sound of discord. Let us sing a strain more cheerful, now flowing, a strai-ai-ai-ai-ai-ain of gladness...
There seems scarcely a loop-hole out of the pitiful plight in which England finds herself. In the midst of such vigor Malthus offers no, remedy. There are possibilities in Swift's old cure for the starvation in Ireland. And yet it is only too probable that the English population would continue to recreate itself like the hydra-headed monster. To adopt the fatalistic attitude and let nature take its course would doubtless lead in a short time to such swarms that all Britain would be a vast human sardine-can. Yet there is a gleam of hope like...
...attempt of the author to show the evil side of college life so that someone else may come along and remedy it, is, I think, laudable. However in the zeal for reality one must remember that even Truth has its place. One has only to read Swift's poem on a lady's dressing room to appreciate the extreme to which realism may be carried. Desirability will always remain a paramount condition. Our bad side is incidental and our faith in college should be great...