Word: liking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which tells how a smug "scientific philanthropist," at last convinced by sad experience of his own inability to help his fellowmen by mere doles of money, is converted, not to a more humane sort of philanthropy, but to golf! Possibly the characters in the story would be more life-like if the author had let them speak more for themselves; the setting and atmosphere are well handled. The unexpected "denouement" confronts one again in Mr. Burke's clever dramatic sketch, "Discipline," in which the reader comes to realize only at the end that he has been reading a play within...
Moreover, no one should forget that this year for the first time debating is an activity belonging solely to the College. Only undergraduates have been elegible for the team; and there has been an unprecedented response in the number of undergraduate candidates. Debating is not endowed; nor does it, like minor athletics, receive a subsidy for its maintenance. But besides financial support, a debating team, more than any other, needs the presence of a large and responsive audience to bring out its best, for it is to the audience that it aims to appeal...
There are still a few Seniors also who have not arranged for sittings at Notman's, to whom the committee gives a final opportunity to appear in the Album if they attend to the matter at once. The committee would also like to get hold of any interesting pictures of college life, as for instance, a picture of the parade to the Stadium before the Princeton game last fall. Pictures of this sort will be appreciated at Matthews 5 as soon as possible...
...appeal thereto? Why, for instance, do all the nations of Europe seek to justify themselves before each other and the world by claiming to be waging a purely defensive war? If the opinion of the world can compel men to fight according to rule, to murder and pillage like Christian gentlemen, why can it not compel them to settle their differences according to reason and with-out fighting? He is blind indeed to modern thought who seeks to argue from the world of a century and more ago to the world of today. And he must be wilfully blind...
Today is President Eliot's eighty-first birthday, but, like any other day, he will continue his regular work. A few hours study, the completion of his series of articles on the present European war for the New York Times, and his usual constitutional will fill out the day's program...