Word: papered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Commandant does not desire to carry men on paper at this time, unless they be men who are willing to meet their obligations with the Band. C. CORDIER. Captain, U. S. Army, Commandant...
From the first I was impressed by the amount of space allotted to verse in the Advocate--a paper with poetic traditions, if ever paper had them--and I cannot see why one whole issue should not be devoted to it from time to time. Surely it is not necessary to remind the editors that the qualities that make vital all literature exist in what we roughly classify as poetry, to a far higher degree than in what, with equal roughness, we classify as prose. As an ex-editor, I sympathize with their professional zeal for "balance," while realizing that...
...human in the sense of "human being" is allowed to stand in the first story-- a fault the more conspicuous, because the idiomatic phrase, "neither man nor beast" would so naturally occur to one in place of the ugly "neither beast nor human." But in general, the paper, both in its prose and its verse, shows the right feeling for style. If the authors had more to say than they have here, evidently they would know how to make effective use of their material...
...paper begins with three editorials. They are not very significant, and the first, "The One Loyalty," leaves room for difference of opinion. It is at least debatable whether a man who wants to do what little he can for the cause of right and civilization today is disloyal to his own country, as the article makes out, in going over to drive an ambulance or do hospital work in France. Until international conditions acutely change, help to that country, no matter how small, is help also to the United States...
...Cowley's "Adventurer," which has rugged force and individuality. And finally, a strong ending to the Advocate is Mr. Willcox's "A Slave." That, like Mr. Damon's "Beauty," is a "real poem," well above the usual level of undergraduate publications. These two are the best pieces in the paper. If it were a matter of awarding a prize to one of them, the reviewer would be at a loss which to choose...