Word: reale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...defects in American journalism has been the lack of a good sane weekly journal of politics and general discussion. The "Nation" and the "New Republic" in turn threatened to fill the gap, wavered, and finally degenerated into radical slander out of which it is now difficult to discover any real constructive criticism...
With the publication of the first number of the new "Review", however, we discover a real prospect of a constructive intellectual paper, which appreciates the true meaning of the words "liberal", and "conservative." A glance at the first paragraph of this new periodical's program fills us with a new hope and belief. To quote...
...their entrance requirements, or laying emphasis on particular studies of a practical nature; Harvard has reformed her system with a view to increasing undergraduate interest in scholarship. We cannot but feel that the University has taken the better considered course, and at the same time has struck at the real root of the problem...
...factor the University has already grasped and acted upon; it remains to develop the first. This will take time. In the meanwhile it is deeply satisfactory to know that Harvard has seen beyond the immediate conditions of our country, and is working to establish those basic factors in a real democracy; spontaneity of action and of thought...
That it is less easy to concentrate when the mercury hits 100 degrees in the shade than at mid-years, when the wind whistles through mackinaws and woolen hockey tights no one will deny. But at the same time much real studying can be done on even the hottest of days. One had only to step into the coolest spot in Cambridge,-- Widener Reading Room,--yesterday to prove that this quite staggeringly hopeful fact is true...