Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Some modest author anonymously publishes "Thrown Away." He contrasts the ideals of our dreams and ambitions with the mundane facts of war. We are rather surprised, however, to find a news boy suddenly shouting "Extra" supposedly in the midst of a peaceful wood, and one still wonders whether the author was wise in not signing his name to his contribution...
...Cambridge Historical Society will hold a meeting in Sanders Theatre on October 20 or October 27 to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Richard Henry Dana '37, a former citizen of Cambridge, who was born here August 1, 1815. He was the author of "Two Years Before the Mast." The details of the exercises have not as yet been arranged...
...example, those who knew the late Charles Francis Adams must turn to the Graduates' Magazine for the most comprehensive and appreciative of the current accounts of his life. Mr. Story sketches the career of this distinguished author and historian, sympathetically and intelligently, from the point of view of a life long friend...
From the point of view of the undergraduate, the most interesting and significant article is entitled "John Barleycorn and John Harvard," by R. E. Connell '15, which takes up the subject of drinking in the University. The author covers the situation sanely and accurately, describing conditions in Cambridge, and ending with a strong appeal for the regulation of drinking conditions in Cambridge...
...present heavily interested in this work. Is there no connection between this fact and the free distribution of a work, the sole purpose of which is to advise a radical increase in military equipment? Is it significant that this book, prepared and distributed at great expense to the author, should contain in its first chapter a vigorous and lengthy assertion that "private manufacturers of war materials should be encouraged by the government"? If Mr. Maxim's motives are above question, he has, to say the least, put himself in a position susceptible to misinterpretation...