Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...show culture and intelligence, but on the question of the author's talent are not illuminating. About the verse I shall not attempt to write, being poorly equipped. "Their Salad Days" seemed to me more typical of college fiction generally than of the Monthly in particular. The editorial is good in plan, but conscious and too literary. It suggests in possibility a little talk about spring that should be simpler, more honest, and clothed in the language and symbols of today,--this editorial, let us say, ten years after
...paragraph which it seems to me deserves consideration from a somewhat different standpoint. Speaking of the increase of private dormitories and the large number of students living outside of College buildings, the President says, "An experience of 270 years with dormitories has demonstrated that they are not good property for the College, it having proved impossible to earn on them so good an income as the mass of general investments of the University yields. The President and Fellows have not built a dormitory with their own money since 1870-71, and are not likely ever to build another, unless with...
...that it is not right for the Corporation to cast aside the policy of having College dormitories merely because they do not pay in round dollars. Any man who has lived in the Yard for a couple of years values what he got there more than a good many dollars. The College must lose money and always will do so as long as it is to be a College which is loved at all. To be a real College it must give more than it gets, and the idea of trying to make the books balance in cold cash seems...
...retained at the Forum trials have been divided into the following two teams to debate the same question at their second trial: affirmative: J. C. Bills '09, I. Dimond '09, and R. E. Hoquet '08; negative: K. Costikyan '09, G. C. Good '09, and A. E. Pinanski '08. The judges were J. S. Davis '08 and B. M. Nussbaum '08, the latter of whom will coach the Forum team in place of H. Hurwitz '08, resigned...
...York Sun. Since then he has been active in the movement for establishing small parks and playgrounds within city limits, and has been instrumental in many movements toward tenement house and school reforms. During the years 1896 and 1897, Mr. Riis was one of the executive officers of the Good Government Clubs, and in 1897 was secretary of the New York Small Parks Commission. He has written a number of books and magazine articles on these subjects, among the best known of which are, "How the Other Half Lives," "The Battle with the Slum," and "The Peril and the Preservation...