Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...preparatory school days, when any childish amusement was more acceptable than serious thoughts and study. Most of us, however, have now passed that stage in our development where we must stamp our feet and explode torpedoes to show our approval of or indifference to what the lecturer says. It is very safe to say that the majority of students in these courses where disturbances occur with systematic regularity do disapprove the method of expression at least. Without the least pretence of being in a position to preach against the faults of some childish students, we do feel that the majority...
...Yale News was represented at the dinner by W. G. Davis, Jr., '08. As the the public understand it, said Mr. Davis, there are varying periods of friendship between Harvard and Yale, but it spite of what the papers say, the sentiment of the undergraduates has not changed in the slightest during the past year. The joy was unanimous when the news was brought to New Haven of the report of the Governing Boards in favor of athletics at Harvard, and there is no reason why friendship should not continue as it has hitherto. We have the same ideals...
Reading the April number carefully for review has confirmed the impression of excellence which I receive frequently from glancing more casually an the Harvard Monthly. In more writing if equals most of the high-class periodicals of older men. In substance, in things to say, it comes nearer to them than would naturally be expected. Indeed there are several contributions to this number which surmised to be from graduates and was decidedly surprised to find from men still in College. The sketch of a man's experience under other which impressed me most of anything in the number...
...college fiction generally than of the Monthly in particular. The editorial is good in plan, but conscious and too literary. It suggests in possibility a little talk about spring that should be simpler, more honest, and clothed in the language and symbols of today,--this editorial, let us say, ten years after
...canals, the effect of which is curiously modified by Professor A. E. Douglass of the University of Arizona, who explains away most of the canals by giving them a psychological origin in the sensory apparatus of the observer. Professor E. S. Morse writes interestingly of "What the Martians Might Say of Us," reversing in imagination the direction of the telescope. Mr. Nikola Tesla is thoroughly characteristic in the firmness of his belief that we shall soon be signalling to Mars by electricity...