Word: comment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anne Bosworth Greene, in the January Forum, writes so ingenuously of "What the Sailors Read" that her tale inspires comment in the same spirit even if grossly apart from reality. Her fancy took fire at a project for ship libraries that originated with a literary discussion in an Oxfordshire garden. It has attained, under the tutelage of a "canny but sympathetic little Scotchman" to actual experiment and its particulars afford novel refreshment...
...purpose of this editorial to explain the value of a work whose merits are decidedly plain. It is rather to comment on the happy system by which such an appreciation is tendered to every Senior in certain departments of concentration. There are however, a great many fields which ignore such a requirement altogether. It may not be the duty of a civil engineer or an export botanist to be fully acquainted with the Bible. There may be other things that are more important in his preparation for future success. But such a requirement, if it were carried through every department...
...hundred and eight children "mobbed" his office. Next day he printed the list of callers with this comment...
...Much comment has been raised recently by the tremendous number of collisions which have taken place at this corner behind the Lampoon Building, and the Cambridge Traffic Department has been generally blamed for taking no notice of the matter...
...reception of the President's message to Congress was extraordinarily nonpartisan. The Republican comment was the usual hymn of praise, a little more unanimous than usual. The Democratic comment was surprisingly mild for the comment of an opposition party. The following opinions were all expressed by Democrats...