Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...presidential campaign of 1912, insisted on finishing what he had to say. Premier Clemenceau, barely escaping from death's door has announced to Secretary Lansing that he will attend the Council of the Great Powers on Tuesday. Not even a bullet could stop the tremendous energy of the great American and the great Frenchman...
John Brodhead Van Shaick, Law '89, Y. M. C. A. secretary in France, died there Dec. 11, 1918, from influenza. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted with the American Ambulance Corps, with which he served for a year and was then transferred to the Y. M. C. A. service...
...CRIMSON has obtained special permission from Professor Bliss Perry to reprint the following extracts concerning James Russell Lowell '38, which are taken from his new book, "The American Spirit in Literature." The book is being published by the Yale University Press, and has not yet been reviewed by critics...
...admirable in feeling and is still so inspiring to his readers that one cannot wish it less in quantity; and in the field of political satire, such as the two series of Bigelow Papers, he had a theme and a method precisely suited to his temperament. No American has approached Lowell's success in this difficult genre: the swift transitions from rural Yankee humor to splendid scorn of evil and to noblest idealism reveal the full powers of one of our most gifted...
...great English literature were the daily companions of his mind. He was bookish, as a bookman should be, and sometimes the very richness and whimsicality of his bookish fancies marred the simplicity and good taste of his pages. But the fundamental texture of his thought and feeling was American, and his most characteristic style has the raciness of our soil. Nature lovers like to point out the freshness and delicacy of his reaction to the New England scene. Wit and humor and wisdom made him one of the best talkers of his generation. These qualities pervade his essays...