Word: commenter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Treasury announced last week without comment the significant fact that onetime (1921-26) Governor-General Baron Byng of Canada has refused to pay a so-called "peerage patent fee" demanded by the Treasury. Theoretically this sum, amounting to several hundred pounds, is due as payment for inserting in the Official Gazette a paragraph to the effect that, last fall, Baron Byng was elevated to the style of Viscount. Actually, of course, the "fee" is a time-honored bit of British graft. How did Lord Byng explain his nonpayment...
...internal comment, such as this of the CRIMSON, can remain at on true to Harvard and completely jingoistic. The core of these quoted paragraphs defines itself in terms of a larger entity than Harvard: it defines itself in terms of American education...
...disagree with those who think you show courage in publishing the letters of criticism and cancellation which come to you. As a matter of fact, most of them are so obviously unintelligent that they answer themselves rather cruelly. Published without comment, they constitute a sort of subtle flattery of your more discriminating readers and become highly suggestive of the desirability, from and advertising standpoint, of your remaining circulation...
...annual report of the Carnegie Foundation, a portion of which appears elsewhere in these columns, occurs significant comment on English athletics, especially where they contrast sharply with the features of athletic systems in American Universities. The most impressive aspect of the matter lies in the fact that, though there are in England many of the openings for commercialism into which American institutions have fallen the tendencies have not appreciably advanced...
...sense of the unceasing and sensitive powers of observation and interpretation a man must possess to interpret life soundly. A wider, busier, and usually less concerned public will, however, be reached by a rebound of this article. The New Republic has given it a partial reproduction and a complete comment. Few from collegiate ranks revolve such recognition and those few are customarily publicists and administrators. More reflection in this manner of the scholar's world would assist in giving it in the eyes of the world the substance and variety it-truly possesses. The Atlantic Monthly and the New Republic...