Word: finding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little disillusioning it is, after all these months, to find that Mr. Sterling was he, too much like meeting an author. One was confident in the honesty of Mr. Foley's claim to the honors of creation. Sterling, Sterling. Well, Sterling...
...Both are to be held responsible. There are tea-tasters and there were wine-tasters; every book seller must now become his own book taster. A round sum might induce a poetaster to prostitute his art in the service of Boston. When it was suggested that some booksellers might find difficulty in keeping peace with the thirty books that are being published each day Mr. Sterling, even though he knows little of fifteen minute education and has practically ignored the Harvard reading period, declared that he could read 15 or 20 books a day. At this gait he would...
...lines in 1917, when the revolution was in process of engulfing the power of the Czar. Jannings plays a heroic figure without any glozing or sentimentality. The Grand Duke, according to our lights, is not an admirable fellow in his daily life. Strike him ever so lightly and you find the Tartar said to lurk in all Russians. He is possessed with high spirits without the restraint which our civilization acquires before a high spirit may be appreciated. His all-absorbing passion for Russia, however, his desire for her good over that of any party, his blind devotion to what...
...significant revelation of the public's ready acceptance of anything which may damage the repute of higher education, that such charges should become so widely believed that a college of the standing of Smith should find it necessary to refute them, and appeal to the alumnae for further controversion. A typical attack, called "Why the College Sap?" may be found in this month's Ladies Home Journal. For there it reaches the mothers of potential college students, to assail them with serious doubts of the desirability of the college influence. In the optimistic belief that virtue eventually triumphs, this wearisome...
...endeavor. Then there is a second and more practical reason. The CRIMSON candidate becomes immediately upon his election to the Board a full fledged editor. And as an editor he will often be faced with situations which require a large measure of prompt and vigorous action. He may find some afternoon in the late spring that he is confronted with the task of getting out an entire paper practically without assistance; he may learn of an important appointment or death at a late hour some night when he has only his own judgement and resources upon which to rely...