Word: lived
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...young man, a newly-married couple in Chicago. Here they find their relation to each other rapidly and fatally changing. To the quiet, religious young girl Chicago is a brutal nightmare; to the coarser-grained young man it is gloriously American, "the voice of the great old century we live in." To her his friends, their host and hostess, are vulgar and almost disgusting; to him they are fascinatingly alive. She breaks the engagement, but "puts a good face on it" till after dinner. America doesn't "pass by": it stays and does its deadly work...
...School recently wrote to his Alumni Fortnightly that Harvard students take a keener interest in public affairs than do western students. Undoubtedly Harvard undergraduates have this interest; but it does not seem to find its way to organized expression and debate through the established machinery. There are live subjects a-plenty just now. The submarine question, the Hay army bill,--the ever-present topic of socialism,--the prospect of Marjorie's ever obtaining her battleship while she is still young and pretty enough to draw the dimes of the admiring readers of the Tribune,--all of these offer opportunities...
...Making a living is the test of a man's right to live; and when the family pursestring is withdrawn, it becomes a cruelly hard test to pass. When ambulance service, aviation, and military camps occupy one's thought, there is little time to consider so routine a subject as work...
...amount it brings in, but as something of itself interesting. If, in the fields of industry and profession, this outlook is needed to make life really worth while, how much greater is the need in the fields of art? All that music, that literature, painting or sculpture live for is the individual contribution to the beauty or significance of the world, which springs from enthusiasm and conviction. To perform this contribution, the artist must not be thinking of how it will be received. That is the death-knell of inspiration...
...live outside the dormitories, but wish to sing, may be assigned to one of the three clubs by consulting Dr. Davison. Since attendance percentage will be based upon the total number of men in the various dormitories, all members should be as regular as possible in attendance, in order to swell their dormitory's total, and so help in securing the prize...