Word: reale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...This is a story that catches and holds the attention, a story of some power, but also of obvious crudities. The weakest of the other stories is "The Mausoleum of Signore Palzi"; it is uneven, hurried, and immature. The best is "Traumerei," by Mr. Prosser, a bit of real life presented with a vividness that would be stronger if the author curbed a little more a tendency towards floridity...
...experience in France has made me feel that the United States should be pretty slow in going into war, as men who know what real war is realize that it is all too horrible to enter lightly. The feeling in England and France towards America has changed tremendously during the past three months. When I arrived in England there was that sneering attitude common with the majority of the people, but their attitude is different now since they feel that the United States is with them. In Paris the Americans are especially admired, the American Ambulance Corps maintaining a large...
Acting in accordance with advice received from city officials in Boston the University authorities have ordered that all the College museums and galleries be closed to the public, and watchmen stationed at the doors have been instructed to admit only such students as have real occasion to use the buildings. This step was taken purely as a precautionary measure in order to safeguard the various collections against the attacks of fanatics, generally prevalent...
...preparation should do much to define the principles involved. The American undergraduate, while he is not lacking in opinion, is often deplorably ignorant of the actual facts that form the basis of important questions of the day. Undoubtedly one cause of the revival of college debating is a real desire to know these facts, coupled with an interest in the world events now taking place. The debate tonight is in every way opportune...
...been bewailed. At present the graduate committee are fully awake to the disheartening condition and are carefully investigating the reasons for the existing apathy. Much is needed before track at Harvard can be put on a firm, successful basis. Undoubtedly the two committees now at work will establish a real system for directing in a business like way the activities of the track team. The best of systems is merely a skeleton and must be supplemented with good administrators and eager workers. Today the yearly competition for the managers begins. Without good directors, men who are alive to the needs...