Word: affair
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...next thing in the number is a long story entitled "Fate in Red," by D. L. The plot involves a somewhat unconventional love affair, but is handled in such a way that the reader's interest is held throughout. The writer displays a strong love for nature and gives several bits of exceedingly good description. One of the shorter stories, by the same author, entitled, "His Heart," gives a thrilling picture of a storm on a rocky coast, but there is very little plot and the ending is decidedly weak...
...unwell last Sunday, and feared there was a conspiracy to expel him from Harvard. Now all these facts were in the hands of the newspaper correspondents for nearly two days before they sent any account in. They did so then only because their respective papers found out about the affair and asked for news on it. With scarcely any exaggeration a newspaper story of the yellowist description might have been written, but the correspondents agreed among themselves to suppress the worst particulars and to send in only such an account as should cast no reproach on the gentleman referred...
...education" concerns what is expected of teachers. The value that is set on text-books induce teacher to give up a great part of their time to writing. Dean Briggs regards this value as overrated. The first duty of the teacher is to teach, writing should be a secondary affair, and not something on which to estimate an instructors worth, as the new education seems to do. By encouraging independent writing and research, it is possible that we have been unfitting the teachers, as teachers, for the student...
...class of 1903 held the first Freshman dinner last evening at the Vendome. Over four hundred men were present and the affair was very successful. The speakers were: G. Clark, toastmaster; R. Derby, class; W. G. Nickerson, football; J. B. Ayer, Jr., crew; W. Clarkson, baseball; A. M. Brown, press; and J. D. Williams, debating...
...lecture at the Prospect Union during the month of January: Professor S. M. Macvane will speak on "South Africa," on January 10; Lieutenant R. C. Smith, U. S. N., will give an illustrated lecture on "The Navy," on January 24. H. G. Gray '97 will speak on "The Dreyfus Affair," January 13; J. K. Whittemore '95, on "German Student Life," January 20; and W. R. Peabody '95 on a subject to be announced, January...