Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the executive committee of the Dramatic Club, the date for the closing of the play competition was definitely set for October 10. This year the club will make a special effort to produce a comedy. In the past there has been a dearth of plays of this kind and pieces of a more serious nature have, of necessity, been produced. To arouse interest and induce men to submit plays in a lighter vein for the competition, the president, J. K. Hodges '14, has offered a prize of fifty dollars to be paid to the author of the comedy...
...once languidly remarked, as he entered Appleton Chapel to hear the Baccalaureate Sermon, "Well this is the first and last time I'll go in here;" and a Junior once admitted, when asked where the College Chapel was, that he did not know. Pathetic, yes, and humorous, but a kind of pathos and humor that can make hypocrites of a good many of us. For several years after compulsory Chapel was abolished, such episodes might have been expected, for a reaction is normal after any ailment. Undoubtedly the next Count at Harvard will convulse us with tales of the present...
...interested in the welfare of Harvard, and that article is Mr. Farrington's earnest plea for "A Harvard Press Association." Harvard is peculiarly unfortunate in being placed in the near vicinity of the Boston newspaper world, for while most of the papers are really desirous of printing the right kind of news about Harvard there are one or two which consistently persist in publishing false and malicious stories concerning the student life in the University. Although these papers are not generally read by the class of people to whom Harvard wishes most to appeal, yet their articles are sometimes copied...
...some day to find he was an authority on that subject, and an authority means a leader in thought. Any man who has the force of character can accomplish much. But without force of character, which means earnestness, determination, persistence and industry, talent is of little value of any kind, and any man who has those moral qualities will accomplish more than he or his friends ever dreamed was within his reach...
...help and not hinder the plan of God. Men can regulate the future of mankind on this plan. But if we do not believe in fatalism imposed on mankind as a whole, we are, nevertheless, in very serious danger of falling into a belief on another kind,--the fatalism which is called the fatalism of the multitude. We are a little too much inclined to think that the individual is carried along by the spirit of his age, and that he has all he can do to go along with that spirit...