Word: reale
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...solution of the present difficulties. The Union holds a place in the University which cannot be filled by any other organization. With the proper support, its usefulness could be made much greater. Without support, it is only a question of time before it must close its doors. Hence the real issue is whether the Union is to continue its existence, and grow into that place which Major Higginson intended it to fill when he gave the money for its erection; or whether it is to be allowed to go to pieces, and stand as a memorial of shameful ingratitude...
...inscribed copy of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is a valuable copy of the first authorized American edition of the book. It was published by Charles Scribner's of New York in 1886. The real interest in the book, however, centres about the inscription. Stevenson gave the volume in 1886 to his dear friend and collaborator in his dramatic works, William Ernest Henley. Four plays were written by the two writers, but most of the plays of Stevenson were unsuccessful. The four works were "Admiral Guinea," "Bean Austin," "Macaire," and "Deacon Brodie." The inscription Stevenson wrote on the fly-leaf...
...fourteen lines and closes with the memorable phrase: "And that to live at ease may be to die." Arthur Ficke has put into his "Irises" the sound of the "Passing water of the cool stream, Coming from afar," and leaves a faint impression of a passion for which the real Iris would be no solace. Augustus Lord's "By Autumn Seas" is a manly utterance on the old theme of world desolation and the comfort of "Love's dauntless cheer." Conrad Aiken has solzed perforce upon the poetry of the unpoetic in his "Vaudeville." He loves the verse of contrast...
Postmaster W. F. Murray '04 spoke of the influence of college men in politics and urged everyone to take advantage of the opportunities in college to become acquainted with real political forces. M. A. O'Leary, chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Committee, spoke on the work of the college men in the coming campaign...
...free discussion of varied ideas . . . and in the end these men triumphed, and with this triumph persecution ceased. The innocence of error was everywhere acknowledged." This is news to many--to the Jews of Eastern Europe, who hold to the view that religious persecution is even now a real and terrible force; to the writer of an editorial on the recent Haverhill riots in this very number of the Monthly; to our philosophers, who after centuries of free discussion are still seeking the truth; to the students of history who have attributed the growth of toleration to many causes besides...