Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...once grateful and disappointing; grateful because it speaks careful thought and meticulous expression; disappointing nevertheless, because the impression it leaves is one of somewhat ponderous mediocrity. We should gladly excuse graver faults if the aims of the magazine had been higher. One of its editors used to say to candidates, "Now go home and pour some hot tar into that story." With the exception of two very significant political utterances--Mr. Allinson's excellent communication on the present campaign and an editorial on "Political Clubs"--the November Monthly lacks...
...work on a mighty theme; but its figures, although effective hints in themselves, are too familiar to be easily coordinated into a single, sharp effect. Mr. Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something because he cannot hold it back--because he has something to say. And at the end of his bold plea for individuality and self-reliance there comes to the reader a sense of satisfaction--dispersal of a doubt, vindication of faith, or what you will--that is seldom found...
...went on to say that Yale until recently had been the home of disorganized athletics, but that the new system aimed to put an end to the internal difficulties. "We want more men to go out," he said in conclusion. "We want scrub teams. We want to make athletics the real centre of undergraduate enthusiasm. There is a feeling outside of Yale that athletics have been over-emphasized at New Haven. They may have been in some major sports, but I think, as a whole, they have not been emphasized enough...
...Reports say that Dartmouth outplayed Princeton in practically every department of the game Saturday. The score stood three to nothing in favor of the Hanover eleven in the third quarter when Driggs intercepted a pass and ran 65 yards for the only touchdown of the game. Princeton played a kicking game throughout both halves...
...says first: "The overwhelming majority of our straw votes for Hughes is in strange distinction from the figures obtained in similar tests elsewhere resulting in victory for Wilson or in practical draws or in very slight favor of Hughes." It is to be presumed that he means straw votes in other colleges and in reply I can only say that the straw vote in every college I have heard of so far this year has resulted in a substantial victory for Hughes. These facts are easily verified...