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Edmund H. Harvey

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A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction

When John Marquand '15 was asked whether he enjoyed his undergraduate days at Harvard, he replied without hesitation, "Not especially."


Academic Moderne, Inc

Rarely does a school catalogue qualify as literature, but once in a while one appears whose clan, whose style, whose


Sense of Humor

Somehow I suspect that Stephen Potter wrote Sense of Humor because he thought he must. As the most popular humorous


Subjective Autobiography: The Vagabond

The novels of Colette are not only subjective but largely autobiographical. Each crisis of her life, almost as in a


Mrs. Garrett's Haitian Trip

Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett, who is occasionally a medium, recently made several trips to Haiti to study paranormal experiences and


A World of Love

(By Elizabeth Bowen; Alfred A. Knopf; 244 pp.; $3.50) The maxim, avoid mass, has gained a select following in the


The Great Outdoors, Etc.

We missed the yodeling, but we arrived in time for the pig-chase, the wood chopping, and the dancing. Everyone seemed


The Advocate

An excess of talent may sometimes be the curse of an undergraduate literary magazine. Often single pieces are noteworthy, but


Brigadoon

In the Scottish highlands there is a town that comes to life once every hundred years. This town is called