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THE BATTALION
of a spoiled child.” Later he declares
“that no adult reader could possibly
read Dickens if he had not been forc
ed to it in his childhood.” Shakes
peare is “the all-to-human play-
write, the greatest of all poets, who
holds a place in the great world
dreaming of things to come.” Lord
Byron is dismissed as an egotistic
young Englishman, whose part in the
various revolutions of Europe can
easily be attributed to “his unceasing-
restlessness of spirit.”
The chapter on Whitman is per
haps the most vigorous attack. The
author of “Leaves of Grass” is here
denounced as the father of this
modern illiterate literature, fchis
“barbaric yawp” of the “ultra-vio-
late aesthetes.” He is shown as a
poser, a fake, and a cheap fraud who
appeals most to the womens study
clubs and the other followers of
Richard Halliburton.
In his praise, Boyd is equally en
thusiastic. Thomas Hardy he sees
as the last of the great classicists,
a man whose strength is hot; equalled
by all of his contemporaries or fol
lowers combined. Poe is 'outstand
ing as a personality, but anything
but a poet.
And so this modern Prometheus
goes, defying the literary gods,
throwing their weaknesses bare to
the popular gaze, and, I believe,
thoroughly enjoying the process. He
gives a new slant on the long wor
shipped men of the centuries, and
his influence, if not exactly in the
right direction, is a healthful anti
dote to many of the class-room eulo
gies on time-worn nonenities.
COLLEGIATE FLYING CLUBS
“An average ten hour flying
course costs in the neighborhood of
three hundred dollars,” says Robert
B. Bell, president of the Harvard
Flying Club, in the April College
Humor. “The chief value of a fly
ing club is that it allows a student
to pile up flying time at a reason
able cost, cutting the price -of ta
course nearly in half.
“The Harvard Flying Club, Incor
porated, is the senior college flying
organization in the country. Its first
plane, flying only six months of the
year since 1926, has flown nearly
four hundred hours, and many pilots
have been trained and licensed, all
without serious mishap of any sort.
This has been largely due to the
success with which it has solved the
main problems which will face every
college flying organization: namely,
the problem of finance, and the
problem of operation.
“The primary aim of any flying
club should be to keep its plane or
planes actually in the air; to pile up
flying time and to train pilots. That
this may be done, some standard
organization and well-defined rules
are needed. It is hoped that this
article will be of some interest and
value to those who are contemplat
ing the formation of flying clubs in
other college and localities.”
—and how they do cheer—these
3 Dr. Peppers a day. A little
extra shot of energy—just the
right kind—at just the right
time to keep you on your toes.
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