Word: novels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...novel letter from Lieutenant John Lavalle, Jr., '18, formerly president of the Lampoon, and now in training for the aviation service in England, was received recently by friends in Boston. Lavalle wrote the letter while in actual flight 5000 feet in the air, at the same time managing the controls with his left hand. The letter is also reprinted in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly...
...flight commander sent me up and said: 'Ely around for an hour'; so here I am, with a board on one knee to write on. Isn't this a novel letter? I see an- other machine over the town doing circles. I guess it's Tom --. We were told to meet at 2000 feet over the town and fly around together. I'm at 5000, and I'm going to dive to 2000 and wave at him. Whee. Motor off, stick forward, and down we go! Gad, its bumpy down here at 2000! It's Tom all right, because...
...people of America must put the idea of 'doing their bit' out of their minds at once, as England did after said experience with that catch phrase," said Captain Louis Keene, C. E. F., commandant of the Dartmouth Battalion, and author of the British war novel "Crumps," when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter recently. "If the country relies upon each person doing his bit, we will lose the war. It is necessary for every man, woman and child in the Allied nations to do his and her utmost--and then some, if we are to be victorious...
...schemes that contain the germ of an important success if only it can be incubated at sufficient heat, vitalized by the magnetism of the right personalities, and fostered by a careful regard for the exact means that will strengthen its life. Quite as obviously it is means of such novel kind that are now in much need in our colleges...
...boys have been reading, which is a good sign; one of them has been reading a real, modern, Russian novel, and enthusiastically reviews "The Bracelet of Garnets." A mere review is not enough for Mr. La Farge, who, under cover of Lowes Dickinson's heavy artillery, dauntlessly assaults the Catholic Church in America and all the other churches in America. Unfortunately he has not reconnoitered the enemy's position; he knows very little about Protestant theology, and less, if anything, about Catholic theology, discipline, education, or policy. Nor has he waited for ammunition; he has not even facts enough...