Word: finding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...place in writing to you on the following subject at this time, while your columns are filled with those affairs of war that are absorbing all interest. But I also feel that such a letter as this of mine should be written, and I hope that you will find room for it in your paper...
Provided Coach Duffy is able to find a man to fill the position at first base left vacant by the graduation of H. L. Nash '16, the University nine may well look forward to another successful season on the diamond. Although the loss of E. W. Mahan '16, one of the best pitchers in collegiate baseball last year, will be greatly felt, Coach Duffy has two letter men in W. G. Garritt, Jr., '17 and C. L. Harrison '18 around whom he should be able to build a strong pitching staff. Harrison was especially effective last year, winning from Yale...
Most attractive, on the whole, among the sonnets I find Mr. Cowley's except "From the Diary of a Restoration Gentleman," which successfully imprisons within fixed form the loose and rambling idiom of Samuel Pepys. Some change of the second line which would avoid the double use in the rhyme position of the word "approach" would leave a sonnet of memorable power, beauty, and satirical point. Although Mr. MacVeagh's "Sonnet" is strongly reminiscent of Mr. E. A. Robinson's poetry, it is interesting and impressive in and for itself. In Mr. Norris's sonnet on the sonnet...
...gabble about munitions, German spies, bleeding Belgium; and by so doing, strange to say, piles impossibility upon impossibility. If you want to see how Mr. Booth's war-policy is actually more unreal than Mrs. Thurston's improbable novel built around an impossible resemblance, go to the Plymouth and find out. It is a very fair evening's entertainment...
...would be hard to find a more effective method of dealing with this so-called Harvard Union for American Neutrality than the pointed sarcasm of that editorial...