Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...only by hearty support of these games that their right to the aid which the Committee is so amply able to give can be vindicated. This aid has now been almost entirely withdrawn, not for the sake of economy, but because the Committee has decided to support only the four "big" sports in the belief that they alone have earned by their popularity the right to receive financial support form the Committee funds. Among these sports, to be sure, rowing is not self-supporting, nor, I believe, is track; yet the Committee has refused to concede the injustice of giving...
...Turner in Cambridge and Boston." The notes, considerably after the manner of Ruskin, are as instructive as they are meant to be. An aggressively sapient piece of work, the article may interest those who are interested in Turner, if they are willing to forgive a patronizing tone for the sake of being informed. The dogmatic manner in art criticism, justified in Ruskin's case by his authoritative position, may in this article repel those who prefer to be stimulated by suggestion rather than to be instructed by formal teaching...
...entitled "'Yaller' Igo," is the most skilful; the narrator knows his subject and presents his situation picturesquely. "Carter, Correspondent," if not permanently significant, is clever and within its limits, entertaining. The interest in "The Hunger of Phocides" does not pass the interest that inheres in incident for its own sake. The verse of the number is pleasing...
There are thus two extremes, the man who goes into politics for a livelihood and loses independence for the sake of influence, and the man, who loses influence for the sake of independence. There is, however, a large middle ground between these positions. No man should make politics his profession unless he is rich enough to be able to withdraw at the times when his judgment does not indorse the actions of his party. For otherwise, there is almost sure to come to a professional politician a crisis when he must choose between his principles, and bread for his children...
...editorial article in two efforts is less happy than usual; it is neither serious nor funny. The "Freshman Reception" does not quite come off. Successful caricature should result in characterization; it should remain essentially true, for its exaggeration is only for the sake of emphasis. But the sketch, though only a farce, is nevertheless amusing. In the present number the Freshmen have overshadowed the Faculty. The lines entitled, "Thou Victim of Insomnia," are more clever than kindly...