Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...detail yet unified and effective. Of the stories, Mr. Plummer's "Full o' the Moon" catches the spirit of Irish legend, though the effort at Irish idiom is a trifle apparent; and Mr. Grant Code's "The Smile" places an old theme in an up-to-date Central American setting with considerable success. The articles on topics of the day begin with Mr. J. S. Watson's "Art and Artificiality," a not quite articulate protest against the "Safety First" temperament. Mr. McComb in his paper "Of Individuality" deals with an allied subject with greater brevity and force. Mr. Burrows replies...
...Group III: History 60 hf., Topics in the Constitutional History of the Argentine Republic, will be a new half-course given the first half-year. Professor Quesada. History 20n, American History, will be a new course in historical research under the direction of Professor Farrand, of Yale University. Government 16, Tendencies of American Legislation, will be omitted. The order of Economics 1a hf., Accounting, and Economics 1b hf., Statistics, has been inverted, as the course in statistics was given the first half-year heretofore. Economics 23, Economic History of Europe from the Thirteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century, will...
...play begins they are visiting friends of the young man, a newly-married couple in Chicago. Here they find their relation to each other rapidly and fatally changing. To the quiet, religious young girl Chicago is a brutal nightmare; to the coarser-grained young man it is gloriously American, "the voice of the great old century we live in." To her his friends, their host and hostess, are vulgar and almost disgusting; to him they are fascinatingly alive. She breaks the engagement, but "puts a good face on it" till after dinner. America doesn't "pass by": it stays...
...Regimental Commander has received the following letter from the President of the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness, Massachusetts Branch for Women, and urges every member of the Harvard Regiment to attend the lecture next Wednesday. 358 Marlboro St., Boston. April...
...Boston's great value is that in a changing world it is able to keep on being itself and different from all other American cities. That is why people from the outlying districts send their boys to Harvard College. All the good of Harvard is that it is a Boston institution. What students from New York, Illinois, Missouri, California, Texas and such remote and imperfectly civilized places go to Harvard for is to get a taste of Boston. They get it, and it does them good, and they take it home and value it all their lives...