Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...point out to Harvard students how undermining of decent amateur sport this practice might become. Every effort should be made to break it up amongst college men. Any student who goes to a hotel where he receives his board for nothing, even though at the invitation of some friend, is likely to place himself under suspicion if he plays baseball. There is a vast difference between playing ball for one's own amusement and playing it for the entertainment of boarders at a summer resort...
...That Friend of Ethel's," by G. B. Fernald '03, is perhaps the best story in the number. Although the title itself is poorly chosen, the characters are delicately and clearly drawn. The conversation, too, is natural; nevertheless the story would undoubtedly be much more appreciated and effective were there less of it. "Out and In," by Ezra Kidd, suffers, as do the rest of the stories from length and the lack of an obvious plot. The writer has shown a tendency to make many pointed observations on human nature in general--perhaps almost more than can be enjoyed...
...Many great writers, including Victor Hugo and Lamartine, speak in praise of this art. The great aim and ambition of the art of the comedian, is to create. The person of the artist's creation laughs, weeps, hopes and sighs with us, because he lives with us, as a friend and compatriot. It is not the author alone who creates. The actor, by interpretation, creates also. He fits into the part and gives it individuality, making the part and the individual...
...trifling subject, I write to call your attention to the desirability of having dinner at noon on Sundays at Memorial. Under the present arrangement at Memorial the man who misses breakfast, partakes of the fearfully inadequate Sunday lunch and in the evening takes tea at the house of a friend, puts his precious existence in jeopardy from starvation. On the other hand it may be said that the man who goes out to dinner at noon and returns in the evening to eat another dinner at Memorial scores twice. Now I do not think that the distinction...
...Harrison is an eminent English man-of-letters, a friend of John Morley. He has written a Life of Cromwell and numerous essays. He is a follower of Kant's philosophy, a positivist, and a liberalist...