Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...very simple; only two precautions are necessary. First, you must never tell your story directly and fully, you must only suggest its outline and leave the rest to your reader's imagination. Kipling is largely responsible for the vogue of this method, but his followers, among them the author of "The Heritage," with the eternal tendency of all pupils, exaggerate the master's distinctive virtues into vices, and as they skim lightly over the surface of their subject, touching it only here and there, become obscure and ludicrous. Second, you must never leave a noun without an effective adjective...
...poem," and then sets about thinking up a subject. There is nothing of the perfunctory about Mr. Aiken's verses; the emotion comes first and demands expression in verse as its natural medium. Though marred here and there by defective or immature technique, as in spots where the author seems hampered by the requirements of metre, "To a Head in Marble" is true poetry in its unabashed revelation of the individual and in its highly imaginative form and expression. It makes February, 1911, a memorable month in the history of the Advocate
...those of us now enrolled in English 2 came a great shock through Saturday's communication. We were dismayed to learn, from "A Senior" that Shakspere was the author of so many "microscopic and insignificant phrases," that the training of our memories is of mere "incidental" importance, and that English 2 did not test our culture. Ah, this last was "the most unkindest...
...addition to the prize of $250, Mr. John Craig, lessee and manager of the castle Square Theatre, gives a promise to stage the play for a week, within one year of its acceptance. If Mr., Craig decided to continue the run he will pay a royalty to the successful author for every week after the first. Plays are judged by the standard of fitness for actual dramatic production...
...McFarland is well known as a master printer and as the author of a number of articles on horticulture and on the beautifying of cities. He was president of the American League for Civic Improvement from 1902 to 1904, and a member of the executive board of the National Municipal League for one year...