Word: deal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Lincoln Steffens delivered a lecture in the Union last evening on "The McNamara Dynamiters: Social Symptoms." Mr. Steffens pointed out that the problem of graft was the same in cities, states, or countries. Germany and England have advanced a great deal further in regard to checking graft than the United States and France. What has been done in Berlin certainly ought to be done in San Francisco, and there is absolutely no reason why it cannot be done. The trouble in this country is that there is a general fight against the labor problem instead of a desire to solve...
...Good Love" is a treatment of the theme of the struggle in a man's affections between the love of a woman and the lure of "the old trail." It is clearly conceived and vividly presented. Mr. Wright is clearly very sensitive to atmosphere, and at times tempted to deal with it to excess, even when it is an essential part of the story. His style would gain in masculinity by a greater restraint in the use of adjectives. In "The Ominous Tract"--a somewhat oracular title--Arthur Wilson has a real story to tell, and tells it with genuine...
...Fogg Museum owns one of the best collections of old Italian masters in the country, and the talk will deal largely with these paintings. Admission will be free to undergraduates...
Speaking of the German periodicals, Professor Paszkowski said that they assume somewhat the same place as did the "Spectator" and that they play an important part in the educational advantages of Germany. The "International Monthly" in particular has done a great deal toward connecting the advances of knowledge in Germany and America to one another and has been an important factor in bringing together, in exchange professorships and otherwise, Harvard and the German universities. The fault of all German journalism seems to be a lack of aggressiveness, but this is not a fatal fault...
...Paszkowski is one of the foremost educators in Europe. He founded a course in the University of Berlin given up entirely to the teaching of German to foreigners, and now holds that professor-ship. He also organized a cosmopolitan club in his university which has done a great deal to bring foreign students in closer touch with German student life. Dr. Paszkowski is especially interested in American universities and colleges and is now making a tour of America, lecturing at the various educational centres throughout the country. This will be his only lecture in or about Boston, and will...