Word: let
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lines and some building up by action to make places weak for a modern audience produce their old effect. There was too much over-rapid speech with slowness on cues. The cast should act not merely while speaking but steadily, keeping well within the picture. The actors should let themselves go enjoy the fun of the play and thus make the audience enjoy it. In the last scene of act 4 and in act 5 the company gave the effect which the whole play should produce. D. F. Fenn and R. C. Fenn acted steadily and well...
...robin came back from the south, it came alone. British robins, it is true, do not go south in winter; and in general the natural history of the poem is as little impeccable as the dialect. But what one wants to know is how Mr. Barlow comes to let his imagination brood on such sad, sentimental things...
...accidentally just. Might, despite the proverb, is not right. The traditional slogan, "In time of peace prepare for war" is a relic of mediaeval days of incessant warfare, and has no meaning today. There is no surer way to make other nations distrust us than to distrust them. Let us trust and be trusted...
...Harvard men to take our stand. Must the news go forth that Harvard will assist in this insane campaign to add to our number of hired murderers? Let those who urge military training remember that they are urging training for organized and deliberate murder! LEWIS S. GANNETT...
...must realize him. This aim cannot be accomplished by knowledge, for all knowledge is partial. In the Upanishad is written, "Mind can never know Brahma; words can never describe him. He can only be known by our soul, by its joy in him and by its love for him. Let man but once understand this great truth, and every obstacle, every task will become a joy; remain ignorant and we will pass from starvation to starvation, from trouble to trouble, and from one fear even to another...