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...Many students, however, write bad English because of sheer ignorance. Errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure abound; students who have been warned several times continue to betray the influence of bad school training and years of indifference. It is significant to note that whereas of all students in the College who take or who have taken English A or English D approximately 8.5 per cent. have been reported to the committee, no less than 24 per cent. have been reported of those students who have been admitted as "unclassified" from other institutions and who have been exempted from...
What is the remedy for this condition? Thought! The conversation need not be "sissy." It need not be high-brow. It may abound in swear words and lines with a double meaning. Is there any reason why conversation cannot show intelligent effort of the mind? Is there any reason why meal times cannot be a period of intellectual stimulus...
Repeatedly the CRIMSON has called attention to the intellectual indifference shown by members of the University to the opportunities that abound in Cambridge and Boston. It is time that at Harvard every man is free to "work out his own salvation" in his own way, and he must, obviously, be permitted to have full intellectual freedom. If art or opera bore him, it is his privilege to eschew them. No one gainsays that...
...there are many precautions to be taken in employing literature in historical work. Literature appeals primarily to the emotions; truth is often sacrificed to artistic effect; anachronisms, foreignisms, exaggerations, abound in most literature. Thus it becomes necessary to study the tendencies of different literary schools, and also comparative literature, in order to discount these qualities and reach beneath them the true, naturally distinctive characteristics of the times. There is a great need of men who are able to interpret literature in this way, both from the aesthetic and historical standpoints...
This play is probably the most interesting and best constructed of Jonson's works. The plot is outlined with clearness and amusing situations abound. The story concerns itself with the winning of an inheritance and the schemes employed to obtain the fortune are most ingenious. A nephew seeking his uncle's riches procures a silent woman, really a youth, to wed his uncle. The conclusion finds the nephew the accepted heir. The scene of the play is laid in London...