Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only story in the number is "A Literary Love Affair," by Mr. Rollins, who has dashed off eight full pages of love and adventure--or rather, a lapse of love and misadventure--absorbing all but three pages of the number. The plot is good and moves along well, but the style is not workmanlike. The piece is too long for its substance; it impresses one as being "padded," as though the writer had incorporated unimportant incidents merely to please his fancy or give his descriptive powers a fling. The ending is a trifle unintelligible, being either so obvious...
...realize the ideals of college democracy and still give men a chance to enjoy to the full precious fellowships that are possible only in limited circles. Harvard considered the matter when the Freshman dormitories were established. Yale tried to eliminate certain abuses when it made tap day a college affair and not a public exhibition. Now Princeton is dealing with this very human question, and very likely the end will be not a complete revolution but some measure of real reform. --Boston Herald...
...selected sketches, and it will furthermore increase community spirit. Although the cost or the pageant will be covered by the money realized from the sale of tickets, it will be necessary to raise at least $15,000 to cover the preliminary expenses. All amounts pledged in support of the affair should be regarded as merely loans, redeemable after the presentation of the spectacle...
...meeting to discuss the plans for the Cambridge pageant in the Stadium next June will be held in the old council chamber of the City Hall, Central square, on next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Professor G. P. Baker '87, who is preparing the detailed plans for the affair, will present an outline of his ideas. Mrs. Williard Reed will speak on the civic phases of the undertaking, and Mr. Elmer H. Bright, chairman of the finance committee, will preside...
...this city are unheeding of what they could learn from their fellow-residents from other sections of the globe, if they set out to incorporate within their own consciousness the knowledge and experience of those others as to foreign lands. History at first hand is a pretty thrilling affair, even though it may be a bit warped and twisted and prejudiced. A college with 28 straight nationalities and an additional lot of hyphenates ought to be as good as place to cultivate the spirit of world unity as a city with representatives from 33 nations among its population...