Word: callings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mean that, frightened into instant action by Advocate admonitions the undergraduate should go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow with a precise plan of procedure in life. The call of duty, they tell us, is not blasted into our ears at dawn on our twenty-first birthday. There was a boy who kept awake in his bed on the night before his twenty-first birthday until one minute past twelve, when, leaping from his covers, he startled the household by rushing through the dwelling and shouting at the top of his lungs: "There's a man in the house...
...mentioned attitudes with them to the Wilbur Theatre. Some may claim that it doesn't take a sick Puritan to turn pale when Shaw's burlesque of early Christianity really gets under way. That would be true,--if one dared take Shaw seriously. But one doesn't, so we call it "delightfully amusing" instead. Which only goes to show that the attitude is the main thing after...
...devour said tailor in the arena. That is the core of the entertainment. The meat is found in the incidentals, which are mainly dialogue. Shaw cares no more for our emotions than for the play, as such, so why should we take it with a long face and call it 'daring dialogue." Nothing of the sort. It is a colossal toying with one fanciful idea after another. Think of a lion out-roaring a Caesar
This morning a small booklet, "The Mistakes of College Life," by Dean Briggs, and "Habit" by William James '69, is being put into the hands of all members of the Freshman class. This gift is made through the generosity of six anonymous donors who call themselves "Six Graduates in New York." It has no connection with the University...
...need men right away, and I earnestly hope that 20 dependable men will respond to this call and will communicate as soon as possible with Mr. William R. Hereford, 14 Wall street, New York City, who looks after the enlistments in America...