Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps the most striking thing about the December Monthly is that every bit of it is well written. There is not one bad thing in the number, and the good things show a really surprising command of language. Yet there is nothing very notable in the collection, one receives the same impression that one so often gets from Harvard papers: here are a lot of clever young men who have read a good deal and know how to write; they are civilized, intelligent, sensitive, literary--but they haven't very much to say for themselves. The poets, particularly fail...
...Paulding describes an affair of the heart in very different vein. He, too, is subtle and sensitive, bat not a bit serious, and he makes us feel that his irresponsible hero is an actual human, attractive, normal Harvard undergraduate, a trivial person, no doubt, but far more appealing than the disembodied soul who suffers through the story by Mr. Wright. Mr. Paulding has not made an important contribution to American fiction, but he has written easily the best thing in the Monthly, which leads one to hope that he will keep on writing college stories with the same delicate...
...ever-diminishing numbers but were mercifully relieved in May of 1915 by the first Kitchener division, the Ninth, of which my regiment was a part. This ended the first stage of the war, but the second continued for over a year while we harrowed and wore down the enemy bit by bit, saving our ammunition for Saturday afternoon 'parties...
...England has always prided itself on the fact that it was not only a pioneer in the cause of popular education in this country but that its educational institutions are second to none in the whole broad land. It is, therefore, a bit startling, to express it mildly, to hear from no less distinguished a person than the Rev. Billy Sunday now conducting a revival in the very shadow of Harvard University, that New England colleges are the "rottenest" in the country. The noted revivalist is quoted, in the news-paper reports of his sermon to mothers last Friday...
...devoted to an institution called the Blue Cross which does for wounded horses what the Red Cross does for men. Since horses are lower animals and not free agents, the spur of patriotic duty does not urge them on, nor do thoughts of promotion aid them in doing their bit; yet, they have to suffer as do other participants in the war. For humane and economic reasons, these animals, commandeered from hunting stables, from the farm, and from the street, should receive a share of the attention given to sick and wounded men. Those who subscribe but a small amount...