Word: journey
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Sentimental Journey," by Sterne...
ITHACA, NEW YORK, may 8, 1908,-The University baseball team arrived here at noon today, after a rather bard journey. After lunch it cleared somewhat and Cornell held practice on Percy Field, but it began to rain heavily when Harvard started practice. The diamond is in very poor condition, and it is doubtful if the game can be played, in which case the team will return early tomorrow...
...entertained by the local Harvard Club. The following day he will address the public school teachers of Dayton, and take part in a public meeting at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium in the evening, speaking on "Municipal Government." Friday, April 24, the President will arrive, after a short journey, at Columbus, where he will be the guest of Professor W. H. Siebert '89, of the University of Ohio. That afternoon he will speak before the Faculty and students, and later will be given a reception by President and Mrs. Thompson, dining that evening with the Harvard Club of Central...
With President Eliot go the best wishes of the University. He is going on a hard journey; one which would tax any man's strength; but one which he is undertaking with his characteristic boldness for the University's sake. He is carrying into the West the true academic spirit of Harvard, appealing to our graduates and to the scholars of the western states, and through them spreading the reputation of the great educational system, of which he was chief founder. It is partly through the efforts of the alumni that a larger western representation may be secured...
...most pretentious piece in the issue is "The End of the Journey," by E. B. Sheldon, a longish story dealing vitally with an ever-important theme--a son's belated grasp of a mother's love. So long as merely mother and son are before us, the author fares well, both in character-drawing and in his ability to sustain the scenes; but in the son's brief interim of idiocy, which involves an unscrupulous actress and her vulgar but honest husband, there is an undue amount of melodrama, even cruelty. For blind idealizing, even of the pertinacious, youthful sort...