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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...achievement. Here too there is imperfection, but of the sort which a less fine critical sense would have trimmed away, losing with it the suggestion which is now so clear of assured though careless power. The little poem has the sharp definition coupled with the large suggestiveness of the best Japanese painting
...three plays that have been chosen are "Transfer of Property," by Mark W. Reed; "The Little Cards," by John Redhead Froome, holder this year of the MacDowell Fellowship which is awarded for the best play submitted in English 47; and "The Reunion," by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley, a special student at Radcliffe. All three plays are serious in subject and mode of treatment. "Transfer of Property" deals with Christian Science and New England life in general. The second of the three plays, "The Little Cards," concerns the life of an immigrant on Ellis Island. Its plot reveals the famous Black Hand...
...fencers in the fencing room of Hemenway Gymnasium this afternoon at 3.30. This will be the third meet of the season for the University team, Bowdoin and Springfield Y. M. C. A. having been defeated. The Pennsylvania swordsmen are all veterans and will make the Crimson fencers show their best to win. Patterson, the leader of the Pennsylvania team, is a fencer of great skill and the match between him and Captain W. H. Russell '18 will bring together two of the best college fencers in the country. E. R. Gay '19 and R. G. Crimmins '19 with Captain Russell...
...that the sophomores are attacking a real evil. The club system, says the Daily Princetonian, has "limited fellowship in a way which is not only exceedingly harmful to the individual, but which also exercises a pernicious effect upon the university's endeavor to turn out undergraduates who shall be best fitted for positions of honor and responsibility in the nation." According to the resigning seniors the system has "discouraged individuality of thought," "created a set of artificial standards," and "diverted the finances, energy and attention of both graduates and undergraduates from the curriculum and other primary purposes of the university...
...competition for the two prizes of $50 each offered by the Boston Society of Architects to students of the University will close today. These prizes will be awarded, one to the regular student and one to the special student in the School of Architecture who submits the best design for a entrance over a lagoon to a botanical garden. In connection with the competition an exhibit of water-color paintings by members of the University, together with four examples of the work of Rankin, a famous Scotch artist, is being held in Robinson Hall. Similar prizes are offered to members...