Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...professorial chair occupied by Professor McAdie. Samuel Gilman, always a somewhat obscure though memorable figure, is described by Mr. H. W. Foote '97. The article includes an account of the ante-bellum relations of Harvard and the South, where Dr. Gilman eventually went to live. He was the author of "Fair Harvard" and a poet of some contemporary reputation. He studied theology at Harvard, and became we are told a most human and warm-hearted divine. The University honored him with the degree...
Among these contributions, "The Genesis of Beauty," by R. Cutler '16, easily takes first rank. The slight bit of narrative in this sketch is thrown against a background of splendid color, and the whole thing is done quickly and powerfully. The author might be suspected to have been recently diving into Russian novelists, but if this is the result of any such reading, it is to be highly commended. Perhaps equally successful is O. W. Larkin '18 in "Imagination in a Pawnshop," which with the skill and the tantalizing of Frank Stockton Smith leaves us in anything but a satisfied...
...Approach to Business Problems," by Arch Wilkinson Shaw, discusses the most effective method of attacking a business problem and ranges over the three great fields of production,--distribution, and administration. In view of the fact that the activities of production have been reduced to fairly generally accepted standards, the author begins with this phase of business and after demonstrating in this known and charted field a method of analysis and systematic approach, he shows how the same method could be applied to the problems of distribution and administration...
...Brown, of the Yale School of Religion, will make four addresses on the question of a vital and rational faith. Fletcher S. Brockman, former secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in China, and Robert E. Speer will also speak of certain phases of Christian service. Harry Emerson Fosdick, author of various religious books, will again be present to appeal to college men, with whom he has so successfully co-operated...
...edition of ten was the only ever printed of "The Beach of Falesa" as a separate volume. It was published by Cassell and Company of London in 1892, and has many variations from the narrative as it appeared in the later collection. Many words which seemed to their author too profane to perpetuate were deleted...