Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...appearance of the "red-covered" parody last Wednesday seemed to herald the possibility of a Renaissance, of a literary magazine that might carry on the traditions which the Monthly fostered to even greater heights. The next day the real Harvard Magazine came out. Can I face the more mature judgments of certain members of our English Department and confess to a decided feeling of disappointment on perusing the pages of the new periodical? With the exception of Miss Barbey's sketch, a charming "bit", creating the mood of a dead past much as Hergesheimer does in "Java Head", I failed...
...most pertinent and telling objection to the League Constitution appeared-in the editorial columns of the Boston Herald last week and later in Senator Lodge's speech. The hypothetical case of a dispute arising between the United States and another country over the question of immigration was taken up and it was shown that if the case were decided against us and the other party approved of the decision, we should be compelled by the rules of the league to surrender our right of sovereignty to just that extent. This argument seems to me unanswerable. It is simply a question...
...elaborate or how modern it may be, no matter what care is spent on planning and construction, any such building will eventually become antiquated and useless--even as Hemenway is today, although when the latter was completed in 1879 it was revolutionary in its magnificence. In the "Harvard Herald" of October 2, 1883, we read "It can fairly be said that the new Harvard Gymnasium has been the parent or sponsor of almost all the modern college gymnasiums of the country." President Eliot's annual report for 1881 stated that "The Hemenway Gymnasium fulfills the best hopes of its usefulness...
...before. The need for chemical engineers, for marine architects, for men skilled in machine designing, is far beyond the available supply. Hence it is that the current has swung away from the so-termed cultural studies and is heading strongly toward professional training along scientific and technical lines. Boston Herald...
Curiosity about next year's presidential nominations grows keener as time goes on, though the situation does not clear up yet. This, offers excellent opportunity for the guessers and prognosticators. The New York Herald has a despatch from Washington which says that ex-Secretary McAdoo's aspirations for the Democratic nomination are now taken for granted. It adds that they are based on the assumption that President Wilson had definitely decided not to be a candidate for renomination, and will devote the rest of his life to leadership of the League of Nations and to literary pursuits. This attractive future...