Word: readers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...writing whatever strength his ever weakening heart allowed. Throughout his academic career, with characteristic courage, he put out a series of papers filled with large learning, aggressive originality, popular sympathy, and delightful language. Through continual practice he had made himself the master of a style which so fascinated the reader by its clearness and pungency that he was able by its aid to break down the distinction between technical and popular appeal, and render abstract subjects intelligible to the common man. Whatever he wrote, said, or did, was instinct with abounding life. Whether readers agreed with his books or dissented...
...which they all stand equal." It has proved to be far more than this for it is now the recognized meeting place for many organizations, and mass meetings and smokers are usually held there. The restaurant furnishes excellent fare at a nominal price. It is also a reader's resort with a library and files of newspapers and periodicals, from all sections of the country. The basement and third floor provide offices for the undergraduate papers, the CRIMSON, Advocate and Monthly. In short the Union is an institution aiming not only to supply many material needs of the students...
...magazine looks rather like "Pages from a graduate's scrap-book." The table of contents is long, and the subjects varied, from the account of an astronomical expedition to South Africa to a description of the new Lampoon Building. Most of these articles are very brief; and the reader is likely to feel that a couple of more extended discussions of interesting subjects might well have replaced half a dozen or so of these smaller sketches. A few of these, however, are excellent, notably the article on the late William Everett by Rev. P. R. Frothingham '86. But many...
...volume is unusually good for a collection of student-verse. The frequency with which touches of real distinction appear is notable; and while one is now and again tolerably certain who is the favorite poet of the maker of these verses, the book shows far more originality than any reader, even if not over critical, would be likely to expect. Lines like these, for instance, taken from various poems scattered through the volume, show poetic sincerity and often no inconsiderable felicity of phrase...
...music of an earlier time; Mr. Miller a moving threnody; Mr. Reed a poem not quite big enough for its language, but showing promise and some metrical skill. Here also is Mr. Pulsifer's Garrison Prize Poem, The Conquest of the Air, which would arrest the attention of any reader by the size of its conception and the telling choice of its words. It is awkward in part of the first stanza, but on the whole skilful verse as well as strong...