Word: named
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been the custom for a number of years, a reception for the entire Freshman class will be held in Brooks House. It will be held Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock and all members of 1916 will be made welcome. Each man will be tagged with his name and will be expected to make as many acquaintances with his classmates as possible. Men prominent in the various activities of College life will speak to the new students, presenting brief surveys of the literary, scholastic, and athletic phases of the University...
First comes the natural question, who are the speakers of the college? We venture to name some of them; those engaged in debating, in competition for the Pasteur Prize, the Boylston Prizes for Public Speaking; and, of course, those especially interested in public speaking, because it will be an asset to them in a profession or business...
...June Monthly makes its comprehensive review of similar publications a helpful discussion of just what such publications should aim to be; and finally works out a very satisfactory creed--to wit: "A magazine which makes sensationalism or journalism or propaganda its first concern has no right to the name literary"; and again: "We aim, not to be professional, or in any cheap ways distinguished, but only to be as excellent as possible in the field of amateur literature." So, if amateurs in literature can do as well as they have, say in tennis or in Christianity, then the editors have...
...exaggeration may be overlooked in so sincere an admirer as the author, especially since the sincerity of his admiration has inspired this study. Every Harvard man who ever came in contact with that great personality, and those of the present generation who are living in the tradition of his name, will be interested in this account of his early days of obscurity...
...appears on the evidence of this number that they must like the art of criticism. The opening article of the issue treats with a sane discrimination, "The Spring Plays of the Harvard Dramatic Club." It is said that there will be no dramatic criticism worthy of the name in America until we have a drama equally worthy. It has become a byword that the dramatic-courses at Cambridge are accomplishing one of these ends; and this piece of criticism signed "C. B." is an encouraging token that the critical faculty is finding its development side by side with the creative...