Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...success or failure of the precedent set by the Class of 1919 rests on whether it is adopted and carried out by the Class of 1920 and subsequent entering classes. The scholarship idea is one which will be possible for the classes to continue because the class collection always exceeds the expenses...
...interests of the moment are further represented by a too long drawn out ironical criticism of Billy Sunday, which W. L. Prosser '18 has thrown into the form of a communication from Satan. The idea is more piquant than the execution...
...most of which he stumbles. The Advocate used to do better in fiction. W. A. Norris '18 and Robert Cutler '16 contribute the verse. Mr. Norris's two sonnets have some fine sonorous phrases, in the making of which he is sometimes reduced into loosening his grasp on his idea. Instances of this are the eighth line of "The Little Cares" and the close of the "Night of Winds." In Mr. Cutler's Dirge for the Bucentor" and "Abdominal Patriotism," he again exhibits the quizzical satirical turn with which he has several times enlivened the pages of the Advocate. Perhaps...
...second Mahan. He isn't but the accents should be on the "as yet" rather than the "isn't" and dismissing the case of Natick's latest starring son in a short comparison to Natick Eddie of last season is hardly fair, for it doesn't give a fitting idea of the wonderful running, dodging and passing ability that Casey possesses. With an even break in luck, Casey should hand in more than a smattering of thrills Saturday...
...Master" is a modern thought production, in which the author gives us his chief character, ruled, presumably, by reason--by the idea that one should have individual freedom to follow the mandates of his own desires in the largest things of life. The author has accomplished a thoroughly fine task...