Word: old
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...editor's plea: a college education through the channels of wisdom, can reveal to the Born Criminal that he was made for better things--is well written and well worked out, but perhaps a trifle inconsistently. "New Opportunity in Old Lands," urging Harvard men to reap the harvests in Europe after the war, is deserving of praise, though the matter is bromidic. Mr. Cowley's comments on McFee's "Casuals of the Sea" are keen and to the point; he seems to have a grasp of the essentials of a good review...
Perhaps it is better to leave God out of the matter, for Mr. Chapman's definite knowledge of God may be no more authoritative than the Kaiser's. Yet it is curious to discover something of the old atmosphere of witch-hanging intolerance in the objection of a Harvard graduate to a Harvard memorial to student heroism under any flag. --New York World...
...Old English, 1700: "My Lovely Celia...
...Indoor Open Handicap Track Meet of the Coast Artillery Corps at Old South Armory, Irving street, Boston...
...instructor in English composition Barrett Wendell was probably the foremost of Americans. His textbook, which has generally supplanted the old rule of thumb volumes that made composition one of the dryest of studies, is itself an entertaining literary work. He has endeavored, with considerable success, to make writing a pleasure rather than a task...