Word: lies
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...blame such a play as "The Professor's Love Story" for having no seriousness of purpose were as silly a to blame Watteau for lacking the violent passion of a cartoonist like Boardman Robinson. To say that the play is trivial is merely to tell a lie. It is, moreover, to forget that there are such qualities as subtlety and niceness and that their effect may be quite a powerful as that produced by the shouting of a Danton. Barrie may be a greater influence than Brieux...
...normal voting place is a very serious matter, for not only students, but hundreds of thousands of men who earn their living by travelling, lose a vote enlightened by wider observation of conditions than is possible to their stay-at-home neighbors. But the solution does not lie in permitting them to vote wherever they may happen to be, even for President. The voters of Cambridge will on next Tuesday cast a ballot not for the Presidential nominee, but for an elector pledged to vote for a certain Presidential nominee, and for electors at large from the state. The elector...
...president. Our local or material interests have, or should have, very little to do with our choice of him who is the servant of all the people of the United States. The president is the spiritual and executive head of the nation in his hands our destinies largely lie. As citizens of the United States we are equally interested in who, by our suffrage, shall reign in the White House, whether our legal residences be in Maine or California...
After all, the interests of an undergraduate publication lie chiefly with the undergraduates. Some day needless rivalry will cease and the Advocate-Monthly will be the result...
...gift is not only empire building by trade building--it is university building by empire building. It carries out the idea of the late Seth Lowe that our great American universities should stand primarily for the paramount expression of life in the particular section where each ahappens to lie...