Word: booked
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most good, foreign trade. Read the recent full page advertisements in the New York papers and see what th real issue is that the men behind Hughes are willing to pay hard money for; you will find nothing but a plain, unvarnished appeal to the provincial American's pocket-book. High tariff! Business profits...
Henry Sydnor Harrison's account of the work at Dunkirk and Ypres is perhaps the most finished piece in the book, while the telling of the death of Richard Hall by Waldo Pierce and of the speech by the "medicin chef" is moving and beautiful. It is impossible to read it without knowing intuitively the supreme worth of the service of all these...
...members of the 1919 Red Book Board will dine at Young's Hotel on Saturday, December 2. After the dinner, the board will attend the performance of "Sybil" at the Colonial Theatre. All expenses will be paid by the management...
Besides the work I have mentioned the number contains a short narrative entitled "Two Friends," by Mr. Putnam; a competent criticism of Mr. Belloc's account of the battle of the Marne, by Mr. Paulding; an editorial on Harvard men in the present war; and three book reviews. These compositions are thoughtful in conception and finished in structure. They bear out and strengthen, however, the feeling which I have already expressed, that the Monthly must dare bigger things, must be willing to commit graver faults, if it is to retain its influence over undergraduate life and ideals...
...Gallipoli," (The Century Co.,; $1.30) with interest, because it tells of a Harvard man's part in the world war; and because it is the product of English 12. "Of all that Harvard has given me," reads the dedication, "I value most the friendship and confidence of 'Copey.'" The book is one of a steadily increasing number whose authors credit a good part of their ability to Professor Copeland's teaching...