Word: currents
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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However that may be, the editors of the Advocate of all classes deserve praise for at least two reasons. Their current number is not in the least "high brow." It is entirely and frankly unpretentious, and frank unpretentiousness is not invariably a characteristic of undergraduate writing. Also it seldom offends by incorrectness of expression. To be sure, one is obliged to ask himself in reading the review of Mr. Masefield's "Good Friday and Other Poems," whether usage has sanctioned as English idiom the illogical phrase, "centre about"? One must also ask himself what the reviewer of Mr. Conrad...
...substance the current Advocate does not deserve so much praise; in fact, its substance is rather thin. The most interesting and significant article is one by Mr. L. P. Mansfield, "Beauty and the Beast"--refreshing, if not at times inspiring, in its plea for individuality in these days when there is so much talk about crushing out individuality, for the sake of democratic solidarity. In his admiration of Tolstoy and "the individuality of Russian art," Mr. Mansfield, to be sure, may not seem himself especially individual. Russian art is very much the fashion nowadays. But Mr. Mansfield is entirely right...
...first four Freshman crews had their first row on the Charles River yesterday afternoon. Since the ice is still blocked in front of Newell Boat Club, all crews rowed from Weld Boat Club, the stretch from the Anderson Bridge to the Western Avenue Bridge being clear. The current is now rapidly taking the ice downstream, and all crews should be able to row from Newell the first of next week. There are now 12 crews rowing on the water, eight University, and four Freshman...
...from the "oratorical" contests of the Middle West. There are persons who think debating is in some mysterious way a corrupter of the youth who take part in it. Such persons take it too seriously. It is certainly an intellectual contest which sharpens the wits and whets interest in current questions, if not, as one critic has said it is not, a "training for public life...
Thoughtful seriousness pervades the current issue of The Harvard Monthly. The editors mean very well, although commendation of this sort may seem to such earnest young men wholly frivolous; yet the earnestness of their expression testifies to the activity of their minds, and the fruit of their labors deserves a blessing...