Word: americanisms
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fact that an unusually large part of the number has been written by the Senior members of the Board. Mr. Price gives us a story, "Little Brother"; Mr. Henshaw, a burlesque, "The Chambers Maid"; Mr. Mclntyre, a story, "Her House out of Order"; Mr. Stoddard, an essay, "The American Snob"; and Mr. Walsh, a poem, "The Explorer." "Dead Man's Pine," a story, by Mr. K. B. Townsend '08, "Sea-Vision," a poem, by Mr. J. H. Wheelock 08, and two editorials complete the list...
...Henshaw's burlesque of the modern romantic novel is disappointing. The strokes are too broad, and the humor, at best, problematical. Mr. Stoddard's analysis of the American snob, on the other hand, is distinctly clever, and leaves one wishing that the author had written more at length of his different classes of snobs...
...American scholarship will be judged, not by the quantity of routine work produced by routine workers, but by, the small amount of first class output of those who, in whatever branch stand in in the first rank. No industry in combination and in combination will ever take the place of this first-hand original work, this productive and creative work, whether in science, in art, in literature. The greatest special function of a college, as distinguished from its general function of producing good citizenship, should be so to shape conditions as to put a premium upon the development of productive...
...education, and what I have to say on this topic can properly be said under the auspices of your Political Club. You here when you graduate will take up many kinds of work; but, there is one work in which all of you should take part simply as good American citizens, and that is the work of self-government. Remember, in the first place, that to take part in the work of government does not in the least mean of necessity to hold office. It means to take an intelligent, disinterested and practical part in the everyday duties...
...political wrong-headedness of such men is quite as great as that of wholly uneducated men, and no people could be less trust-worthy as critics and advisers. The educated man who seeks to console himself for his own lack of the robust qualities to bring success in American politics by moaning over the degeneracy of the times, instead of trying to better them, by railing at the men who do the actual work of political life, instead of trying himself to do the work, is a poor creature, and, so far as his feeble powers avail, is a damage...