Word: contention
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...social commotion as the present, Professor Bliss Perry's book on Carlyle, the great social preacher, is especially timely. Carlyle's peculiar style has thrown up a barrier, increasing in formidableness as time passes, to discourage the hasty reader. And, as Professor Perry remarks, the modern reader is content with picked-up ideas and "facile guesses" regarding the personality of this great Victorian figure. The real flexibility of Carlyle's use of language, "the rich accent of Annandale," is concealed for many by his vagaries and eccentricities. Moreover, the violence and unpersuasiveness of his method shocks the unsympathetic...
...Department of Economics is not now seeking the means for undertaking this work on a large scale. It is in quest of funds to establish some research assistantships; and will be content to await results from these before extending the work. The tuition fee was increased partly in order to remove that discouragement to donors which was created by the existence of the deficit, and it is to be hoped that funds will now be found to strengthen such important fields of scholarship as this...
Admirably miscellaneous in content, the current number of the Advocate would be worth nothing if only for the unexpected variety of the sketches and the poems. Only one worn theme appears. In "Instans Tyrannus" the author's occasional success in humorous phrasing gives only partial vitality to a rather cheap and bromidic sketch. The description of "The Round Up" by Mr. Fleming is vivid in spots and needs only a greater trimness of style to be even more effective. In his sketch after Tolstoi, Mr. Amory has achieved success in the difficult art of intelligent parody. The picture of Adam...
This is the first time that the complaints have been seriously considered by the Faculty. Since the Student Council, ostensibly the mediator between students and Faculty, is not allowed to plead directly before the Faculty but must content itself with sending to it a written petition, there is always considerable difficulty in obtaining a hearing for a complaint. The oral exams. have been overhauled by previous Student Councils, but their recommendations have been shelved or blocked in some department before they ever reached the Faculty. By the time that the class of 1915, after being in the toils for three...
...volume. The variety of subject and treatment is especially noteworthy. They do not take themselves very seriously; they are not out to reconstruct either literature or life. Their work is the more acceptable. It is really a relief to find a college "literary" paper, which is content with being readable, lively, and light. Those of us who feel the need of "uplift" can afford to wait for Billy Sunday