Word: readers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Theodore Roosevelt found Harvard a place where a man thinks for himself because he has some knowledge of what other men have thought for themselves Throughout his life he was a great reader, and what is more a tenacious reader, who liked to break in on other people's specialities with some fresh illumination. He wrote books, many and to the point. In his last years he practiced the art of the journalist, through systematic and incisive articles. Few of the sons of Harvard in the last forty years have left so high or so enduring a monument of literary...
...rest. Mr. Dill's efforts to create atmosphere are at the same time overdone and stereotyped. His method is cumulative rather than selective, and for that reason he fails to convince. Mr. Sparks, though he is more successful, shows the disposition, frequent in the immature realist, to shock his reader by calling every spade a blasted shovel. In saying this I am aware that I am committing a sin which might be termed reviewer's overemphasis. For Mr. Sparks writes vividly and one does not forget what he says...
...Frenchmen "bandying jovial indecencies" till the order comes: "All sections roll tomorrow at four. ***Trenchbombs." Mr. Sparks tells of an aviator killed in an accident and of the French girl who mourned him. As in many stories that deal with passion, the author's vehemence does not carry the reader with it. The final paragraph is dangerously reminiscent of the Bab Ballads...
...shipyards could be reached by most mechanics without more adequate information than could be offered to them through the employment offices and other ordinary sources of information. So true has it been that ship-building has been a mysterious art that little or nothing of value to the lay reader has been published regarding the operations in ship-building, or of the conditions which must be confronted by those who engage...
Verse is abundant: among the longer poems is one by J. D. Parson '17, containing some imaginative lines upon a well worn subject; and J. T. Rogers experiments with initial rhymes. The unfortunate result is that the reader's attention is concentrated upon the beginning of each line, while the middle and the end are forgotten...