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Some years ago a man, not altogether averse to prominence at the Lake Mohonk peace conferences, offered $100 to the student in any American college who would write the best essay on the peace cause. With a great flourish of trumpets, the donor himself making a magnificent speech, the $100 was finally awarded. Statistics showed that if the prize had been divided equally among the contestants each would have received 82 cents for his labors. Of course, the contest may have been an aid to forceful writing, but the chances are that the same results could have been accomplished through...
...written, to his immediate superior and to the head of the business; all made him about as popular as a thunder storm at a picnic. His routine reports, the business analyses he was employed to make, were clear and sound, but each of them was signed with a flourish: "Thomas Dean, Ph.D.' This man has never been able to hold a job permanently...
...text books, which will be placed in the Text Book Loan Library of Phillips Brooks House. Every year several thousand books are lent at the rate of 10 cents a volume for the year, and many more are required if this important branch of Phillips Brooks House is to flourish. The following organizations will take care of the old clothing collected and distribute it among the poor of their districts: Associated Charities of Cambridge, Associated Charities of Boston, and the Red Cross...
...representative magazine is not yet; the anthology of Harvard's "best" is-still unborn, but the Advocate is awake and doing its share toward letting us know what the majority of undergraduates can and do write; and, it is to be hoped, read. Possibly the isolated genius does not flourish in these pages, and perhaps there are here no signs of that rara avis, the average student. But infallibly there is worth-while work from men blessed with ideas and ability to express them
Moreover, a University shell is essential as an example to the Freshmen candidates, for the latter, unless they feel that the upperclassmen are behind them, cannot be expected to go into the sport with the usual energy. The football team has shown that informal athletics can flourish; it is now absolutely imperative that rowing live up to its gridiron predecessor...