Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bureau was closed this fall because of a recent act of the legislature after operating since 1913 as a free legal office for the poor of Cambridge...
...forth, it would be well for the University to take stock of the situation. The roots of the spoils system are strong and firm. In these days of Curley and Roosevelt, the wilderness has won back much of the hard-fought ground gained by the first hardy pioneers, as recent reports of Civil Service League amply affirm. There are even some supposedly sane-minded observers who believe that the wilderness should be preserved for its original denizens, unscrupulous politicians, in order, we hear, to preserve the party system...
...Recent tragedies brought about by drinking at that university are undoubtedly responsible for the attitude of the paper. One student fell out of a window during a drinking bout and was killed, and another was convicted (and subsequently expelled) for seriously beating a dormitory janitor while under the influence of liquor...
...years he contented himself with the Gothic cathedrals, Connecticut farmhouses and old doorways that keep his colleagues busy, but for the past three years his needle has done nothing but War scenes. Three weeks ago Manhattan's Keppel Galleries held an exhibition of his recent work, published a little pamphlet reprinting a few of them along with the first essay he has ever written. Its conclusion : "It is said that war is human nature- that we always have had wars and always will-I do not believe it. Something can be done about it. God knows it is human...
...first volume of his Studies in the Psychology of Sex, which was promptly suppressed as obscene. Ellis then went into voluntary exile in Morocco, wrote Affirmations and A Study of British Genius. His wife died in 1916, and he now lives in semi-retirement in London. His most recent book has a nostalgic flavor. It begins with a chapter on his first impressions of Paris, the result of an exploration he made 45 years ago with Arthur Symons into that remarkable artistic world inhabited by such figures as Mallarmé, Rodin, Verlaine, Huysmans, Edmond de Goncourt. Taine and Renan were...