Word: convincingness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Whether by accident or intention, the Harvard Advocate makes Incident, as distinct from Episode, the special feature of its issue of December 5. The Incident may be compared to a detail in a design, capable of being sketched apart, but with a certain incompleteness; the Episode is rather a design...
Two papers deal with undergraduate interests: Mr. Spencer Ervin's contribution to the department of "Varied Outlooks," and Mr. A. Whitman's clever and engagingly written analysis of the would-be "brilliant amateur." Mr. Ervin's discussion is well balanced and convincing, and reaches the wholesome conclusion that "what we...
Of the stories, "The Coward," by E. B. Sheldon '08, seems to the reviewer the most successful. The story of a reformed "sport" who becomes a clergyman, and ultimately, through fear of his inability to resist the attractions of the world, gives up everything, even love, to enter a religious...
In "Recent Graduates as Men of Lectures" Mr. Groton discusses appreciatively the younger generation of Harvard writers, and furnishes a convincing refutation of the thesis that the teaching of English composition in Harvard College has not served to develop men of letters. The men enumerated there, as well as many...
Before discussing his main topic, however, Mr. Bryan emphasized the importance of public speaking today. He said that he believed it to be the duty of every citizen to train himself to think clearly and to speak accurately on the questions of the day and that for this reason public...