| + − | Nation. 84: 35. Ja. 10, ’07. 40w. |
“It is after all the vein of seriousness running through the volume of gay verse that makes Mr. Irwin’s ‘Random rhymes and odd numbers’ more than the light amusement of a passing hour.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 30. Ja. 19, ’07. 560w. |
“Mr. Irwin is really a sort of poetic Dooley.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 941. D. 15, ’06. 100w. |
Irwin, Wallace Admah. Shame of the colleges. $1.25. Outing pub. co.
7–22412.
In these days of the muck rake almost everything has figured in the literature of exposure and now the dread instrument is run “over the field of waving rah-rahs.” Dedicated to Leland Stanford Junior, this little volume with its amusing illustrations makes its witty accusations in a series of papers entitled Harvard, the crimes of the amalgamated-gentleman trust; Vassar, delicious but dyspeptic; Princeton, frenzied but unashamed; The University of Chicago, a self-made antique; Yale, the democratic machine at Yale; and West Point, a reign of drill-terriers.
“Might almost be described as a small body of liquid verse entirely surrounded by dull prose.”