Word: finding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...purely literary articles, all have the merit of attempting something difficult and interesting. The attempts are, however, not uniformly successful. Only one of the poems is satisfactory. In Mr. H. E. Porter's "Horace's Garden," we find marble statues keeping guard against the snares of wind and rain, and silence muffling a landscape with a counterpane,--figures too metaphysical to be happy. Mr. R. J. Walsh's "The Death of Cleopatra" has gained a prize as a translation from Horace. Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez's "Odalisque," clear in thought, admirable in melody, worthily maintains the standard of "Advocate" verse...
...summing up the situation at the end of the football season we find an item which appears as regularly as we are defeated. We know that it offends all undergraduates who have though seriously on the football question--and that is a very inclusive category; we believe that it receives little sympathy from graduates. This item is the wholesale and unfriendly criticism of the Harvard coaches, appearing in newspapers the day after the game, and written as a rule by old players whose right to criticise history does not entirely justify. Doubtless only a deep interest in our team could...
...admirably drawn cover-design of the forthcoming Lampoon introduces us to the gigantic optimism of the number-an optimism that is fortunately perennial. The more "he thinks it over, the more Lampy thinks we will win." We often find that the prophecies of the humorist are the true ones, so we have the right this time to believe in him. The two long poems in the paper, the Kipling parodies, are well done, as were the verses in the last number on the graduates who do not get seats. The Lampoon is often the most efficient exponent of undergraduate opinion...
...aspect of undergraduate criticism. Apparently everyone is blaming the next man for lack of confidence in the team, while the only ones to surrender are a few half-hearted graduates who are anxious to gain money and universal odium by the use of their pens. The sooner these "Cassandras" find out that they are talking to their own hurt, the better it will be for them and for every one who has the interest of the Harvard team at heart...
...city, like a successful business concern, needs an executive committee which shall employ experts to find out its real needs. In the West, many cities are governed by commissions, and the checks of initiative, referendum and recall keep the commission from abusing its powers. But the efficacy of the reform turns on the question, "Can you get better men under government by commissions?" The answer seems to be "yes," for successful business men will consent to serve under this system where they will not be hampered by aldermen and common councillors...