Word: robert
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...degree. From the moment of Hawker's sensational get-away, when he dropped with his landing-gear practically all his chances of alighting safely on land, Americans were "rooting" for him, rather than the more cautiously scientific American pilots. Then he was lost for a week, and General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout Movement, was deeply affected last week as he told a New York audience that Americans seemed to feel that loss,--the loss of a thorough sport,--almost more than Englishmen themselves...
...shows how an imitation of filial piety may be employed to extract money from innocent Westerners, M. A. Kister converts an atheist into a believer and man of power by means of a railway accident. So far there is nothing beyond the usual legerdemain of the short story; but Robert H. Chambers has achieved a more difficult feat. His "Nigger of No Account" is well no the way which leads to literature, because the author has sympathized with his hero. I am arraid that in the craze for technique the necessity of sympathetic understanding is too often forgotten; the story...
...column" paper would need as much support from the banks of Boston as the Magazine now receives from a certain type of "instructor." The CRIMSON has been developed by such editors as George S. Mandell, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Owen Wister, Barrett Wendell, Thomas W. Lamont, W. Roscoe Thayer, Robert Bacon, and countless others. It is difficult to believe that a new and untried journal could solve the problems which these men gave much of their undergraduate careers to unravelling...
...desired by the Paris Central Committee that American college and university men, both students and instructors, send expressions of opinion concerning the general and particular objects of the Congress to the American representative, Mr. Robert Ferrari, 159 E. 122 street, New York City. These constructive criticisms will be made the basis of a report which will soon be published, and will govern the future action of the Congress...
...Robert Crockett Rand '19, of Rye, N. Y. has been awarded first place in the competition for the Senior Baccalaureate Hymn, according to an announcement made by the Class Day Committee. Only a small number of compositions were submitted this year...