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...before. The contact with the members of cultured families cannot but be influential. The students are realizing more and more since the war the artificial atmosphere of the College, and they are seeking to break down the fulsome barriers that they feel are artificial, and to let out their pent-up enthusiasm where the "bel-monde" will stop and listen. And it is just here that the undesirable intellectual pawn-brokers that live about Cambridge become important. They are extremely good listeners as well as advisers...
...melancholy task to thread the mazes of Paris in the winter and spring of 1919. Let it be said to Mr. Lansing's credit that he has done it with a less degree of harshness toward the unfortunate American personality involved, and with a more subdued sense of the pent-up wrongs of the Conference than either Keynes or Dillon. Only upon the question of the secret diplomacy of the "big Four" and the Shantung settlement does he exhibit in his memoranda the inflamed state of mind that burned beneath his constant dignity and forbearance. For Mr. Lansing the Conference...
...others, too, which are far from pentametric. With its conclusion that woman is hard to understand there will be no general disagreement. Mr. Heffenger's thoughtful sonnet "Success" is simply but unpoetically expressed. One is less certain of Mr. Rogers' ideas in the long poem "Death"--a large subject--pent in a rather exacting rhyme scheme. If the author had been less vague and more self-disciplined, it might have been easier to share his vision. Mr. Leffingwell's two poems, especially "Mt. Auburn at Dawn," show a lyric talent reminiscent of Noyes. But the best poem, and the best...
...Wright 2L., 25-8; J. L. Stettinius '04, 17-7: J. A. Remich '06, 18-10; J. Hinckley '06, 29-6; S. S. Breese '05, 24-9; T. L. Marshalis '04, 23-3; F. W. Cloud '05, 12-7; J. W. Bell '06, 30-3; E. E. du Pent '03, 30-3; C. F. Wright '03, 26-8; N. C. Ward sS., 28-8; G. Forbes '05, 21-4; G. Brooks '05, 20-9; H. S. Corbett '08, 27-4; L. Albright '03, 20-5; B. C. Tower '06, 18-7; J. L. Peabody '03, 19-9; L. A. Andrus...
...early party of the twelfth century, in a growing demand for expression. The Roman Church also had a strong hold upon the minds of Italians at this time, and the power which she possessed was the ark of civilization. In the early part of the thirteenth century the long pent up feeling in men's hearts burst forth into a religious revival, which had as its motive the bringing of all men within the fold of the Christian Church...