Word: currents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...much struck by the Advocate's second editorial in the current issue "A Plea for Prose." So far as my own experience goes, it is unique in either academic or professional journalism. Yet I should not be surprised if it were found significant of the general literary situation. I understand that it has become increasingly difficult to get good stories for the magazines, one reason being the greater profit from writing scenarios for the "movies," another the deductive attraction of vers libre. The latter enables a writer to utilize at once, it primitive, semi-poetic, material--idea of image--that...
...Reverend William L. Sullivan minister of All Souls' Church, New York City, will give the Dudleian lecture of the current academic year in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject will be "Religion As a Way to Reality." The Dudleian lecture is given annually under the foundation established by Paul Dudley, of the Class of 1690. It is open to the public...
...current issue of the Advocate there appears an editorial dealing with the men who, to quote the author's words, think to serve humanity by doing hospital and ambulance work in England and France." The writer of the editorial then goes on to criticise these men who are pusillanimous enough to prefer to risk their lives in the relief of suffering rather than serve gloriously in their respective college regiments, even as he. The editorial is written throughout in a highly moral tone of admonition, of gentle rebuke, but it is nothing less than a serious attack on the ambulance...
Then take the field of history. Don't you think the study ought to be limited to the great events of the current year? Leak Investigation 1, for example, ought to be a very popular course. Since it has been proved that history never repeats itself, it is ridiculous to study events of the past. The history of events previous to 1900 should be thrown out of the curriculum, if for no other reason than that it unquestionably overtaxes the undergraduate's memory--already sufficiently strained in keeping his tea dance engagements in proper order...
...must be said that in view of all that is passing in the world, the contributors to the current Monthly seem somewhat strangely "untouched by solemn thought." There is, to be sure, an editorial directed against the "Harvard Prussianism" with which the "Union for American Neutrality" was greeted. In two of the eleven poems in the number-- "My Peace I Leave With You," by Robert S. Hillyer, and "The Hour," by W. A. Norris--one hears at least an echo from the present upheaval of mankind. Otherwise, except for Mr. Hunt's contribution, everything might be going on just...