New-York tribune., 1922-04-09

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SaS' As opinions 0" 10 pa as fost then ,,es ~
c. SHf he them Tke ~. r,,. % signing
yet people thot onu - -, pS'0"'a
all seriously they all o ~ 'eS "e"
High Priests They ondt they cy{e. each ,l ~ " ""9
ttae thing is for eoA - l+ a'" o'Ae' b" that doesn't
ad oiude 70 himself TO his ,is,, - ' ~ "v ms nue.
himself We so as to O"nd Hke bishop or cs n p@ 10 0
The Crows Nest" ~ lay lr7 in
CONTEMPORARY critic of baseball books and "moviY Wow.
y with alarm the literary situation at Harvard h; , views
1t appears from his lament since the Hau.ht mater
tanodse 'he crimson dome has ivory and tbouob
She stars are IN the ascendant its has Aord -
The Harvard Stadium is full bruer but oo ~ ~ S, o ou'
W ~ % nne harvard is turning hefty halfback Yale is
Ging sa.efol world ITS Benets. Stewarts Farrars
Our critic has erudition, history to Witness in ;
h .taH ,e % Oh a"a'rs Sparta had excellent
attack that produced German mlar had
begun to put hobnals into The situation a '"'
thus There was time when yale might be faster than @
os w harvard w's could run circles anybody from New
haven They the Romans the Greeks Or ,
belong to Yale but our soul belonged to art any "'s"
Recalling dimy that Edgar Masters and Carl ssrdh
knox, Ben Hect the Everegh School and that sbervd
Joseph Herseshner Vache Lindsay, Floyd Dell Maxwell pdh
ana fran aeke never really and recaIng t
not one really first rate and literary artists in
university graduates we disposed regard this omca
- " s op"cS'eo Jest Most of the artists known
VINO survived college making against manv handc,n - ~
the fact down But both Harvard assure me- that ~
h assertion WV A''' enos some color
We are urged to put in Harvard against its df and
~ az WIN s: 'ne ac We are nothing obigng and so
m @ SUCK on frat pn turn the cuffs trousers put
on sophomore cap and give three for Harvard '
For we arc told what suspected namely that m .r
h ipt % was not so long staff up Robert
and stewart Mche Here is diversified surely Nathan
ens IS the author OF two novels beautiful Verse;
and one OF his novels Autumn believe of the vcr fne
literary aceVennents IN recent literary critic for and
Inc managing editor of The Paos is on]v % m
Younger and the author Of Sodrs 10 h
Again Ia charming collection of another novel soon 70 b |
na ana volume of verse Cummings artist and the
author Of curious which figure occasionally in tho roora ]
publications. Stewart published last YEAR o} - m
poems written some excellent ESSAYS m collected
'yer poet who the scholarship and WIS., f
me in effect the American literary ambassador the
Countries O""'"
ear Of Tomorrow and Hiram K oderwcl author of "bc roa
Today; Aiken and T. S Eliot arc ren 4 - % l'e'
Even Eugene oNei there for a few weeks IF Hard % %
ced Eliot Nathan Dos Passos Aiken should believe that their
LAY 'ne'e was justified But we do think
hERRE LOVING has, the Naton an interesting article
this thingthe question of the influence Of d
contacts the development talent He attempts to accont f
W phenomenon of Chagos literary activity attempts to exnla
row came about that the ugly. sprwing city has produced
the work Drer Henry Fuller Frank Norris Carl sandb
woo Anderson Ben Iccht Maxwell Bodcnheim Lindsay
o aired hreymbog almost the only distinctive literature
recent times in America the with few xcep
r '" challenges comparison with contemporary
He hits upon the obvious Chicago physically larger city
o b d rarely meet one another because distances
ana cnefe arc not OF architecture
me drab material of town. the dirt and oso rr M
IA [ % M III upon h'n,se!f and make him beauty
w M cu e"g lack OF 1t about him. to beauty
90 Sandburg Anderson ch the ver ur,ncss hev nn
cat ohgerlne town the artists nossn u gr
~ media of eXpessonone poetry magazine and bc
" one or two handans and disconres
t,onoor t - " ana the real artist this
s' of IT, because he to satisfy a need Tho nm
nofvc
nos 60 ~ III ',s unequal battle That is why Chicago
40 many fourlshing medotics does New York Now York
TO 'aeh' provided social grace
mas s coffee House ;,crodh,o
"oe SO adVanageouy worshinpe NAV look
e 'he Guy thinkers
S us National Arts ho.r lr
~ WHO mas written book explain how he
nd IT'S chairs Of criticism where o,o o,v 4
"e Professors Broun .,
literature and N'
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