Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...phrase "patriotic pack" applied derisively and indiscriminately to you and me leaves a most disagreeably sour taste. In its current issue, the "New York Nation" comments editorially on the case of Professor James McKeen Cattell of Columbia University, who was dismissed in 1917 "without proper charges or heating, accused of 'sedition, treason, and opposition to the enforcement of the law of the United States'" Subsequently, he sued the trustees for libel and demanded the pension to which he was nominally untitled. An award of 245,000 was recently made him. It is a question, avers the "Nation", whether...
Dean Briggs went on to quote passages from the poem and to comment on the characters and the author, ending by stating: "If he had written nothing but the monologues in the story he would yet have been among the great English poets...
...heard Mr. Eaton, of critical fame, give a lecture recently in which he stigmatized Boston as a "leg-show-town"; adding forthwith that so few good plays visit the city because the good plays always fall to fill their theatres. A none too subtle comment on the intellectuality of Boston...
...random. It will be seen at once that they are not only the ordinary attendance records, course grades, and Dean's recommendations; they include also the financial statements, various college rules, and a thousand other minutiae of university affairs--The following selection, I believe, need no further comment. I translate freely but without distortion...
...prominent physician recently was heard to comment on the kind of men who must be relied on to care for our public health and safety. Either they are men trained only in the machines of the work--waterworks architects, city planners, builders of sanitary systems; or they are men with adequate medical training, but without the practical knowledge which will make their services of full value to the communities in which they work. The evident need is for men who combine these two kinds of training. They must not only be able to determine the health needs of the city...