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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Both his poetry and his prose reveal a nature never quite integnated into wholeness of structure, into harmony with itself. His writing, at its best, is noble and delightful, full of human charm, but it is difficult for him to master a certain waywardness and to sustain any note steadily. This temperamental flaw does not affect the winsomeness of his letters, unless to add to it. It is lost to view, often, in the sincerity and pathos of his lyrics, but it is felt in most of his longer efforts in prose, and accounts for a certain dissatisfaction which many...
...fundamental texture of his thought and feeling was American, and his most characteristic style has the raciness of our soil. Nature lovers like to point out the freshness and delicacy of his reaction to the New England scene. Wit and humor and wisdom made him one of the best talkers of his generation. These qualities pervade his essays and his letters, and the latter in particular reveal those ardons and fidelities of friendship which men like Emerson and Thoreau longed after without ever quite experiencing. Lowell's cosmopolitan reputation, which was greatly enhanced in the last decade of his life...
...poetry, prose, painting, and architecture. To this end the alumni subscribe each year a thousand dollars and more so that the expositions may be of the highest order of excellence in having the music presented by artists of high rank. Mr. Whiting, also, gives us of his very best, and his preliminary talks are always most suggestive and illuminating. The project has had paid to it that sincerest form of compliment, namely, imitation and adoption by a number of the other leading universities, such as Yale, Princeton, etc., so that, as Mr. Whiting facetiously puts it, he now occupies...
Among the most important changes are four main points which Yale has adopted: Development of the best possible major teams general participation in athletics by the undergraduate body; employment of a permanent director of athletics; appointment of a resident graduate executive committee by the board of control. These general matters have been discussed for some time but this is the first time a decision has been reached...
...Costigan '20 led of for the University and best Leathe of the B. A. A. to the first corner. He held this advantage throughout the four laps and handed over a three-yard lead to W. H. Goodwin '20. At the Start of the Second lap Mahoney of the B. A. A. went ahead by 15 yards but Goodwin spurted on the final stretch and the runners finished even. On the exchange of batons, the Crimson had the advantage, D. F. O'Connell '21 taking the first corner ahead of Paine. Paine went ahead before the lap was ended...