Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...statement in the news columns of the CRIMSON of March 7 in regard to the Harvard Endowment Fund is slightly misleading. You say that "the committee has not attempted to give a great deal of publicity to their movement and raise the money in a short time, but they plan to go slowly and to give years to the collection of the fund." Quite the contrary, the committee has given the $10,-000,000 Fund considerable publicity both in the newspapers and otherwise. This publicity has had the effect of prompting several very substanial gifts wholly unsolicited and many expressions...
...people say the French are gay? CUTHBERT WRIGHT...
...were required to say what single thing in this issue of the Advocate has pleased me most, I think I should choose Mr. Robert Hillyer's "A Heron." Here there is artifice, certainly artifice justified by achievement. Here too there is imperfection, but of the sort which a less fine critical sense would have trimmed away, losing with it the suggestion which is now so clear of assured though careless power. The little poem has the sharp definition coupled with the large suggestiveness of the best Japanese painting
...advantage, at outset, of a good, workmanlike novel to draw upon. It is not a sin against art to write a romance or construct a play upon the impossible physical resemblance of two men. Only you must get away with it. A certain William Shakespeare, as Professor Baker would say, "got away with it," to a remarkable degree in "Twelfth Night," and so did Anthony Hope in that classic melodrama, "The Prisoner of Zenda." And so did Mrs. Thurston, the original author of "The Masquerader." But Mr. Booth refused to concede all the honors to his feminine collaborator...
...this attitude be taken, a resort to arms, by way of vindicating America's rights, is manifestly impossible, since we should be obliged to challenge practically the whole of Europe. Granting that Germany, by her submarine warfare, is contravening the principles of international law, what shall we say of the Orders in Council issued by the British Admiralty, whereby neutral cargoes of non-contraband goods are seized, in spite of the solemn guarantees of the Declaration of London, in which England and other signatories bound themselves to respect the non-contraband character of such goods? The recognition of the restrictions...