Word: franticness
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...this year our readers have been singularly free from the frantic appeal of Senior class Secretary and Photograph Committee. In the past our columns have been overwhelmed about this time of year with startling statements as to tardiness in having pictures taken and in sending in "Lives". Therefore, we are led to believe that 1912 takes an interest in attending to its class duties...
...HARVARD CRIMSON, daily paper to the University and dispenser of advertisements that those who run to 'nine-o'clocks' may read, came forth Thursday morning with an editorial on 'Dramatics at Harvard' sandwiched into a page of frantic commercial appeals from people who make the sort of breakfast food that produces brain tissue and the sort of cigarette 'that every college boy smokes.' And the CRIMSON--or as it is affectionately known at Harvard, 'The Crime'--informed its readers that, however the college graduate flourished on Broadway, the state of dramatics--and by this it meant principally acting--within...
...advise of the editorial article on "Happy Mid-years," which seems to be aimed both against excessive "grinding" and frantic tutoring, is certainly worthy of consideration; the tone of the paragraph on new resolutions is that of admonition tinged with gentle cynicism. The contribution inveighing against serious-mindedness, is, however, not in the least cynical, and if it fails to convince some of us, it is not because the article is not pleasantly written. Of the two pieces of verse, "Winter Dreams" is poetical in conception, but the imagery seems to lack originality, and the lines drag. "River Wind...
...rare, into the customs and the life and the spirit of the older Harvard. In "Academic Leisure" a plea is made for a real leisure in the life of our higher institutions of learning, and an active opposition by these institutions of "worship of energy and the frantic eagerness for action" in favor of "an atmosphere of calm reflection...
...article entitled "Sport or Business?" W. James, Jr., '03, treats the athletic question from the point of view of one who believes that Harvard athletics are losing the true spirit of amateur sport through making "frantic attempts to beat Yale." This question is of such general interest, and is so ably dealt with in this article, that any condensed summary of its contents must be unsatisfactory. It will be taken up at length in a future issue of the CRIMSON...