Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...seclusion and solitude are luxuriously disclosing the soapy rites of their bathtubs, it is refreshing to find that among college writers of verse, usually the most imitative of new notes and squawks, some still realize that beauty is truth, truth beauty. Both Mr. Ryan, in his pantheistic God's Ghost, haunting, mysterious, dewy, curiously suggesting tones of Wordsworth and Keats, and Mr. Chambers, in the Sinn Fein, frankly swinging into Kipling's virile stride to tell how men may cheer and die, not only have something to say but show that they love music of word and of line...
...issue of the Advocate, while the verse is for the most part pleasantly negligible, the prose approximates the brilliant. Not without exceptons, to be sure: Mr. Dill's ghost story and Mr. Spark's description of ambulance service at Verdun are, particularly in the former instance, below the average of the rest. Mr. Dill's efforts to create atmosphere are at the same time overdone and stereotyped. His method is cumulative rather than selective, and for that reason he fails to convince. Mr. Sparks, though he is more successful, shows the disposition, frequent in the immature realist, to shock...
...writers of this morning's pacifistic communication to the CRIMSON would evidently have it do. They take the position that because war is bad the United States should under all circumstances whatsoever die rather than fight. Or else they wish her, when she fights, to have not the ghost of a chance to win. Against responsibilities as men upon whom women and children depend, against national honor (to which they apply quotation marks), they place the term "organized murder. Do they prefer disorganized suicide...
...more with study preparation for war than with aiding the Red Cross or advancing the normal social work of women in peace. At least, they tend to refute a fear expressed in the New York Times yesterday that equal suffrage means war in which we will not have a ghost of a chance to succeed. Finally, there appears an article on "Celestial Photography at the Harvard Astronomical Observatory" which must be interesting...
...Jordan Hall this evening at 8 o'clock with a bill of four one-act plays, each of an entirely different type. The first, a dramatization of Leacock's "Behind the Beyond" deals with the absurdity of problem plays and ridicules those who go to see them. "The Ghost of Jerry Bundler", by W. W. Jacobs which has been acted with much success by Cyril Maude, has been characterized as "A play of dark shadows and blue moon light in which the old inn, the old story, the old practical joke and the old tragedy--all combine to make...