Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Paulding describes an affair of the heart in very different vein. He, too, is subtle and sensitive, bat not a bit serious, and he makes us feel that his irresponsible hero is an actual human, attractive, normal Harvard undergraduate, a trivial person, no doubt, but far more appealing than the disembodied soul who suffers through the story by Mr. Wright. Mr. Paulding has not made an important contribution to American fiction, but he has written easily the best thing in the Monthly, which leads one to hope that he will keep on writing college stories with the same delicate...
...gradually working themselves up into a "heroic mood," and who seem to feel that at a time when most of the world is at war, it is somehow unmanly for us not to be doing some fighting. They feel that our differences with Mexico ought to be made an affair of honor. President Wilson's view seems to be that it would be dishonorable and cowardly to make war upon a weak nation, distracted by civil wars. Remembering that this Republic is dedicated to certain great principles, he apparently feels that we ought to put no difficulties...
Final preparations have been completed for the Yale pageant which starts tomorrow. This affair celebrates the 200th anniversary of the removal of Yale College to New Haven an elaborate program has been arranged, and efforts have been made to accommodate the thousands of people who are expected in New Haven over the week-end. For weeks all hotel accommodations have been reserved, and restaurant keepers stocking up for the event. The New Haven is to run special trains from various points, and there will be parking space at the Bowl for over 6,000 automobiles...
...game with Dean has been an annual affair for a number of years, but during the last two years the seconds have been unable to win the score two years ago being 10 to 7 for Dean, and last year a 0 to 0 tie. The second University team, however, has a stronger defence and a more diversified attack this year than it has had before so early in the season, so that they should be able to put up a fast and strong game, with good prospects for a victory in their initial contest...
Taking every match from the University Golf team in the final round, Princeton won the intercollegiate team championship. The University golfers had reached the finals by defeating Cornell, while Princeton had come through with a victory over Yale. The match with the Ithacans was a one-sided affair, the University capturing all of the doubles and five of the six singles, making the score 8 to 1. The Princeton-Yale contest was closely contested. The Tigers finally triumphing by a single point, when H. Maxwell, of Princeton, holed a fifteen-foot putt on the eighteenth green or a victory over...