Word: novels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...novel feature in connection with the final chapel exercises of the Amherst College seniors was the formal announcement of the election of President Meiklejohn as an honorary member of the class in view of the fact that the president and the seniors began their connection with the college at the same time. In token of his acceptance of the honorary membership conferred upon him by the class, the President doffed his doctor of laws regalia, was escorted to a place among the seniors in the front row and at the conclusion of the exercises marched out between the class marshal...
...given by the Honorable Bertrand Russel of Cambridge University, England. Although this is not the first visit of the distinguished philosopher to Harvard, his coming none the less opens an unusual opportunity to students of philosophy, logic, social psychology, and ethics. Particularly striking will his vigorous and novel views be regarded here in that he is one of the distinguished leaders of the present Neo-realistic movement which is a reaction against the old extremes of naturalism and idealism. His most brilliant works, "Principia Mathematica" (1910) and "Problems of Philosophy" (1911) aroused a revolutionary enthusiasm among the Syounger and rising...
...Nail in the Shoe" is the best of the stories, but the reviewer is sentimental enough to wish that the cynical conclusion had not been added. Mr. Babcock's "Willie's Golden Moment" is almost as bad as a story can be. It is to a good dime novel as a melodrama of the movies to a real tragedy. As for Mr. Burk's fragmentary "Delay," a Senior editor should know better than to set such an example of halfdone work...
...point of view of the University. The season fits conveniently into our athletic calendar. Hockey, wrestling, and gymnastics have drawn only a fraction of the students into mid-winter sports, and boxing offers additional training for large numbers. Those who cannot compete on University teams have found a novel and strenuous way to bridge over the period between, say, fall tennis and Leiter cup baseball. These practical merits, confirmed by the excellent spirit of the spectators last night who evidenced neither a diletante "high blow" interest in athletics nor on the other hand an excess of violent enthusiasm insure...
...Miss Anne Wood. The Armory was decorated in black and white with the university crew shell hanging above the centre of the hall. Supper and intermission came at 1 o'clock, after the twelfth dance. The lighting of several of the dances by spotlights from the balconies produced a novel effect. The festivities of Prom. week ended at 5 o'clock when the end of the dance order was reached...