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Fortunately the men chosen are well acquainted with such verbal vagaries, and would be the last to attempt any such dictation. Their service must by limited to the spreading of he more conservative idioms in the hopes of creating a clearer and wider comprehension of them and to considering the more radical with an idea of submitting the more important to the acid test of popular use. In such a way it may be possible to influence the advance of language; to direct it is impossible. But if this group finds itself capable of promoting the unity of English speaking...
...Sage, who spent all his life making money, and, when he became old and realized the end was near, was at a loss to know what disposition to make of his wealth. He was true to himself and left it all to his wife, Mrs. Sage, who, with a clearer vision and higher purpose, founded the famous Russell Sage Foundation, which has done, and is still doing, a great work...
...times Mr. Alken's poems are almost pure music. Schumann, they remind one of, in their exuberance, their pulsing rhythms and sorrowful, lapsing melodies. Some of them are a little hard to follow, so intricately psychological they seem. But upon each re-reading they grow clearer--like music, honest music, which one hears, and wants to hear, again and again. Always the melody comes suddenly, strong and clear, to catch one at the throat...
...ardor of his Arabian predecessor must have led Mr. Peters to adopt this romantic and effective method of gaining first-hand information. It is so un-American. Perhaps if we could but infuse a little more of this spirit into our other officials, they would gain a clearer insight into the true needs of the people than they often seem to possess...
...they are not able to carry on a systematic discussion of undergraduate problems such as the conference will be able to do. Actual meeting with the leaders in the same line of activities from other colleges and the comparison of conditions, means, and methods will give a clearer vision and a more able understanding of the problems. Harvard's Student Council voted not to send representatives to the conference, and was condemned by the CRIMSON in an editorial headed "Splendid Isolation", for not doing so. Brown has taken the right step in deciding to have men at the conference...