Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...profession so fundamental in its nature, so exacting in its demands, and so high and imaginative in its rewards, is obviously not one to which large numbers of men, in any particular day, are likely to be drawn. There are quite enough men now in the Christian ministry in this generation, such as they are; what we want is not many men but the few and fit. And there are certain clear preliminary qualifications for the office. Practical men, for instance, who are chiefly interested in doing things, who take an objective view of life, who think...
...poems Mr. Hillyer, whose verse always commands respect, contributes "Revelation" and a sonnet. The former is not quite successful in harmonizing its words or its figures of speech; the latter, like many sonnets by the same author, is larger in conception and in diction than the sonnets of most undergraduates. Mr. Nelson's "Harbor Lights," though a little rough, is vigorous and contains one fine stanza. Mr. Rogers's "Oh Wonderful Wind of Desire" begins well and is spirited throughout, but in the last two stanzas seems not quite at home with its form. "Transition," by Mr. Benshimol, lacks...
...believe that President Lowell is working along the right lines when he says that a Harvard Battalion will not have great military value and I would like to back up his suggestion that more Harvard men join the militia...
...Most young men have little knowledge of military matters and seems to have an idea that joining the militia is like going to jail for a period of three years--that it is impossible to get out before the end of the term. This is absolutely untrue. A man may be discharged at any time for business reasons or upon removal of his place of abode. The two chief requisites are attendance at camp for a period of eight days in summer (where, by the way, one will get more real work than at Plattsburg) and attendance at drills once...
...order to make his books themselves seem real to him; he needs a dash of physical effort and even risk. And there is nothing, at present, except the more strenuous phases of athletics that can supply this want. If the college man's play looks to an outsider like the most earnest and whole-hearted thing that he ever does, it is because this play is at present his best substitute for "experience," and for that kind of "reality" which pain and hard training rub in. I take the development of athletics as a sign that the instincts of American...