Word: backwashes
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Dates: during 1917-1917
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...which in its paragraphing recalls the Boston American, is alive with good detail. Mr. Fay's "On Keeping a Diary" gives an impression of quaintness without affection, and abundance without waste. Of the editorials on the proposals of peace, the second is the more striking. The review of "The Backwash of the War" is interesting in its disregard of the important question whether less war now may not mean more...
...typical of the proverbial Harvard indifference. There is still considerable justification for their opinion. Yet during the last two years Americans, and American students in particular, have undoubtedly tended to face more seriously the intellectual and social problems which they encounter. This sudden Renaissance is part of the backwash of war. It is witnessed at Harvard by the increased interest that students are beginning to take in national and international questions. The preparedness agitation, the International Polity Club movement, the excitement occasioned by the elections, are all signs...