Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other characters are not so successfully represented. However, there are a few brilliant exceptions. Samuel Tanner as a shyster lawyer is most convincing, but C. L. Felter as president of a women's college fails to exhibit even the weaknesses demanded of his part. In passing, we cannot but demand that he have his frock coat altered so that it will fit around his neck...
...have purposely refrained from speaking of Germany's relation to other countries after the war but I cannot close without expressing the belief that the war will bring a new life to all the nation's engaged in it. May we not hope that the universal striving for inner reconstruction, the newly-awakened longing for a higher civic consciousness, the ideal of a national life devoted to the cultivation of the highest powers of the individual, will finally quench the blind passions and violent hatreds inflamed by the war, so that a regenerated Europe will more firmly-than ever before...
...with five violins two violas, a cello and a contrabass, made of birchwood. I provided the strings and I know not how many unfortunate Siberian horses sacrified their tails for the bows. All the war prisoners, particularly the Hungarians, need music almost as much as food. They simply cannot exist without it. When instruments cannot be bought they make them out of whatever happens to be available...
...either university the students who, like De Quincey, enter thinking of some obscure text of the "Parmenuides," must be rare. Scholars are consoling themselves over Cambridge, if we may believe a London weekly with the thought that students are told, "If you cannot read the Iliad you can act it." The pleasure of putting this into Greek verse might have compensated Porson for the blow the step would have struck him. --The Nation...
...national character on a basis of proportional representation among all the states than could other universities. Certainly it is much more nearly national in this respect than are the large universities of the West, who draw very largely from the states in which they are located, but who cannot entice thorough representation from the East. The statistical title is one for statisticians to determine; the real claim to rank as our most national university will depend upon an institution's grasp of the spirit that should live in American nationalism and of its ability to consider the interests...