Word: attempts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...waiting for material on which to work. Travel papers are not a favorable form in which to reveal what is special to the writer. Those of Arminius show culture and intelligence, but on the question of the author's talent are not illuminating. About the verse I shall not attempt to write, being poorly equipped. "Their Salad Days" seemed to me more typical of college fiction generally than of the Monthly in particular. The editorial is good in plan, but conscious and too literary. It suggests in possibility a little talk about spring that should be simpler, more honest...
...aims and methods of the Illustrated Magazine differ in important respects from those of most of the student publications in the University. It makes no attempt to confine its list of contributors to the College; it deals with subjects of general public interest as well as with intramural matters; and besides literature it seeks to cultivate the art of the illustrator and to practice topical journalism. While this breadth and diversity of aim give an opportunity for appealing to a wider range of interests, they necessarily make the magazine less characteristic of Harvard, and less illuminating of the life here...
There are two sufficient reasons why the system of paid professional coaches for athletic teams should be maintained in Harvard: the first is in order that men on competing teams may do well what they attempt to do; the second is that Harvard teams should not be deliberately placed on an unequal footing with competing teams from other colleges...
...four-fifths of any nation, who have sold their lives to be able to live. In the Middle Ages, where feudalism was everywhere present, nothing was paid for in money, but in labor. People engaged themselves in exchange for commodities; but such contracts soon became very odious, and every attempt was made to annul them. In consequence of the rising of values, debtors found it to their advantage to take back any land, renouncing the services which were the price paid therefor...
...University Museum by Professor W. M. Davis '69, whose subject will be "Why the Earth is Believed to be Millions of Years Old." The lecture will be in part explanatory of certain exhibits, included in the New Geological Exhibition Room, now in process of arrangement, and will attempt to make clear why the geological history of the earth is divided into various ages and periods, each of which is of untold duration. Photographic projections will present illustrations of various rock structures, from which the processes and conditions of past ages may be reasonably inferred, and the essentially simple nature...