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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...after false starts. Goethe began to study for the law and schiller spent some years as any army surgeon. Sir Francis Bacon believed that his fame would rest of his career as a lawyer and statesman. Bourne-Jones did not begin to paint until he was nearly thirty years old. In our own time we have seen Mr. Booth Tarkington who aspired to be an artist emerge as one of the leading American authors...
...have changed so successfully from one line of endeavor to another, we should not make the mistake of believing that greatness depends simply on indecisive waiting. All of these men early in life made a definite aim for themselves and worked hard to reach it. They gave up their old ambition only when they could substitute...
...tariff making, but a body of advisers who have the general confidence of the country cannot fail to exert a powerful influence. Of the capacity of Professor Taussig there can be no question. No living American economist surpasses him in achievement or reputation. Doubtless those who like the old way of tariff-making--a compromise among selfish interests--would call him a "theorist." So he is; so any student of so intricate a subject must be. And his knowledge of theory qualifies him all the more to treat the subject broadly, with due regard to national needs. It makes little...
...Lathrop '18 and R. C. McKay 2L rescued two 12-year-old boys from drowning in the Charles river yesterday afternoon. The boys were Richard Wolbert, of 9 Centre street, and Philip Rutledge, of 8 Chatham street, both of Cambridge. Lathrop and McKay were walking along the parkway near the Cambridge Boat Club about 5 o'clock in the afternoon when they saw a crowd collected near where the two boys had gone through the ice. Lathrop immediately threw of his coat and plunged into the water, and with the assistance of McKay, pulled them out and carried them ashore...
...these lines might apply to almost any old French city in war time, and they give us a clue to the first defect of the book. The author has not found the soul of Bordeaux, that something which exists in every old city and distinguishes it from all other cities. He has the external features, the names of streets and parks, the jangling of old bells, the seasoned stone of the buildings, bridges and docks, and the "spire-shattered" sky. But frequently he seems to have been too busy being an imagist to be a poet as well...