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...fraught with so many difficulties that only the most adventurous enlist for life, but even so, the whole conference is lifted to high levels and many who do not reach the heights catch visions of service that never leave them even though they follow the Christ haltingly and afar...
...much truer test as a rule. Until the whole attitude of college students is overturned there can scarcely be a great change in the popular attitude; and such an overthrow, involving an end of the national distrust of sheer theory and the professional point of view, seems still afar. New York Tribune...
Anne is an orphan, left in the charge of two young men. One of them marries her, and the other, John Halliday, a sort of intellectual Major Dobbin, equally in love with her, must be content to worship from afar. Anne, as a bride of 17, is not willing to become prematurely a sedate matron; she starts out to live her life in her own sweet way. But finally, after she has had her share of trouble and excitement--after she has been separated from her husband and has lost her only child--come reconciliation and a humbling...
...Cambridge and the vicinity. A natural tendency for foreigners in a new country is to group together. The Club now aims to make this group more sociable and to link it with American activities. We believe that this will benefit the club as well as its members from afar. Such action shows a commendable determination to make this institution more serviceable and foreign students more at home...
...sure and practiced touch. His "America to Europe" says much in its fourteen lines and closes with the memorable phrase: "And that to live at ease may be to die." Arthur Ficke has put into his "Irises" the sound of the "Passing water of the cool stream, Coming from afar," and leaves a faint impression of a passion for which the real Iris would be no solace. Augustus Lord's "By Autumn Seas" is a manly utterance on the old theme of world desolation and the comfort of "Love's dauntless cheer." Conrad Aiken has solzed perforce upon the poetry...