Word: evens
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Whittlesey's interesting "Travler," a tramp, seems also to have been drawn from life. At any rate, we seem to recognize the sort of road-side philosophy that he discourses, even if it is hard to reconcile ideas and vocabulary...
...have discovered good means of determining who are the deserving, boys of their community. The good reports made of the scholarship men are not all the result of the students' sense of gratitude to their benefactors but must also be explained by honest purpose held and good work done even in advance of their coming to Harvard. Boston Transcript...
...portrayed by Sir Herbert Tree, Wolsey is the shrewd, stern, diplomat of history, quick to see the turn of the tide, arrogant in his power, forward even in his fall. Miss Mathison's Queen Katharine was good, as her parts usually are. She is best, as always when subdued, tending to become theatrical when roused to any great pitch of emotion. Miss Mackay's Anne Bullen could hardly have been bettered, portraying as it did the willful, attractive personality of Henry's second wife. But the master characterization of all was Lyn Harding's King Henry. The easy going, blustering...
Unfortunately even such a centre of intelligence and athletic equipment as Harvard has men who wilfully or carelessly refuse to take regular exercise, who spend their days and nights in comfortable chairs, and call the short walks between classes, or from a dinning hall "enough exercise for them." Some of them are pathetically conscientious students who persuade themselves that they have no time for such nonsense, and sit for hours poring over books that they could master in half the time if their brains were refreshed by a run, a sharp game of tennis, or even a brisk walk...
...have but the slightest sketch of the operations of these Harvard delvers on the margin of the Nubian desert. The world will await with interest their fuller and more authoritative story. But we know that at least they have won an archaeological victory, even if they have won it at the hands of the god of chance. They were at least earnestly "on the job" to take advantage of any gifts that that god might bring them. Boston Transcript...