Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...least one business manager will be taken on from the Class of 1920. Several positions on the business staff are open as usual to members of the Sophomore Class. The work required of business candidates consists in securing advertisements and doing a certain amount of clerical work, but no book-keeping is required...
...book, "The First Hundred Thousand," written under the pen name of Ian Hay, is well known to everyone. It describes the experiences encountered by a volunteer at Aldershot and later somewhere in France. The meeting is open to all members of the University...
...present rank of captain. In "The First Hundred Thousand," Captain Beith relates some of the most interesting of his personal experiences both in the training camp at Aldershot, when he was a member of the Sutherland Highlanders and at the front during the opening months of the war. His book is unique among the war publications in having been characterized as the account of the typical life of a British soldier at the front, written from a soldier's point of view...
...February Monthly contains four sonnets, seven other poems, a story, two other prose articles, two editorials, and a review of a book. At no time in my remembrance have the undergraduates shown a more active interest in writing verse, or written better verse, than they are writing today: yet in this number of the Monthly the verse is more conspicuous for quantity than for quality. Mr. Hillyer's though not his best, is the best in the number. His lines "To a Portrait of Marguerite de Normandie" are in part quite worthy of him; but the second half...
...Half an Hour" drives home a bitter little morsel of truth on the end of a sharp knife in three quick stabs. The wife closes the hated book of her married life to go with her lover. Their meeting is all the happiness of life compassed in a moment of anticipation. Then in stunning suddenness comes the lover's death, and as a long-drawn, searing after-pain the wife's turning back to take up again the despised existence of thirty minutes before. True, splendidly characterized and theatrically dramatic in the best sense, "Half an Hour" sets...