Word: life
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Union has now completed the sixth and most successful year of its history, and is established on a practical working basis. Through the efficient and untiring efforts of this year's Governing Board the Union has become an active and indispensable factor in the life of the University. The increasing usefulness of the club has been due not so much to innovations as to improvements in departments already established...
...been continued with increased success and has gone a long way towards solving the financial problem. At present there are 2173 active members--80 more than at this time a year ago. Of these active members 1958 had their dues charged on their term bills. There are 1061 graduate life members, 72 student life, 651 associate members, and 526 non-resident members, making a total of 4483 men who now belong to the Union...
Page after page of the poem deals with undergraduate life from the inside, from the undergraduate's point of view, in terms which will be as intelligible twenty years from today as to the class of 1907. Mr. Bynner has struck out lines which phrase the Harvard College of his own time in a thoroughly representative spirit. The poem is as unique among odes as it is among works dealing with the life in American colleges. George Ade has satirized the exuberance of the western "universities"; Cornell, Princeton, Columbia and Harvard has each its volume of "stories." The striking fact...
...mistaken, I think, in one of his main theses, that art has no message for the multitude; he is right if he limits himself to the Anglo-Saxon multitude, but wrong if he remembers the Italian; for example one of the most encouraging things in our American composite life is a Sunday afternoon visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Mr. Simonson is wrong, too, in choosing the slashing style, in throwing other critics out of court. Such phrases as "critical ephemeridae", "there is a great deal of nonsense written", are likely to put the reader...
...departure from conventionality. "The Year on the Track" is a brief summary by one who knows. "The Agassiz Centenary" reprints three speeches too charming to pass away with the daily newspaper. "The Adventures of a Dry Nurse" is probably too true a picture of a young schoolmaster's dormitory life. "Our Interest in the Outside World" makes a suggestion more sanguine than practical. "The Weld Boathouse" gives interesting facts in rather inferior form...