Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Preparatory schools have the right idea in appointing their coaches as members of the faculties...
...sincere and pleasing than is often found among the poems of the High Priestess of vers libre. Mr. Putnam translates a Horatian ode into blank verse; since Horace does better in a swinging meter, an appreciative translation loses interest. Mr. Parson's free verse seems strained and unhappy; the idea of the same poet's "Art" deserves a better expression. Mr. Allinson contributes to the campaign literature of the day, recently dignified (or chinafied, as many have it), by the pen of Dr. Eliot, a glowing eulogium on Woodrow Wilson, "greater chieftain of the higher mind." With this qualifying phrase...
...agree that no man who has never fully mastered the drill regulations and the routine work of a soldier will make a first class officer--even though he be only a second lieutenant. At the same time a good officer requires a certain amount of theoretical knowledge and some idea of military policy. It would seem, therefore, that it might be possible to arrange such a division of the time spent in theoretical and practical work as would prove consistent with the War Department's scheme for training reserve officers, and at the same time satisfy all requirements for counting...
...verse in the number is remarkably mature in thought and able in workmanship. Four of the poems are sonnets; of these two are a subtly matched pair by Mr. Reniers; the others by Henderson and Mr. Le Farge, treat in different moods the idea of death. Mr. Norris writes "Lines" of epigrammatic brevity and point. "From an Office Window at night" is Mr. Allinson's expression of revolt on the part of the city worker whose imagination carries him far away. Mr. Paulding's verse is tense and irregular; unlike many contemporary writers of tense and irregular verse...
...idea that always has had its appeal, because it is real. It will in most cases work itself out instinctively without the definite purposing of university authorities. But Samuel Hill definitizes and accelerates it by founding a chair of Russian at the American gateway to Russia. It is through such movements that the growth and staying power of our foreign trade expansion is to be assured. Chicago Evening Post...