Word: says
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ignored. The best criterion by which to determine the artistic worth of a narrative is the question, Are you eager to know the end? The best works of art are so inestimably satisfying in each particular as to inhibit curiosity. I give the Monthly the highest praise when I say that I find nothing dependent for its value upon any "interest," either that which seeks the solution of some fictitious plot or of some human problem. Interests are easy and perceptions difficult, yet to experience the present is the end of all culture...
...hardly necessary to say that a department composed entirely of extremists would be far worse than one without the leaven of radicalism. The ideal situation would be to have both sides of labor, corporation, labor-union questions and the like presented by men with strong convictions pro as well...
...Harvard professor who is generally recognized as the Dean of American students of English, Professor Kittredge. His six lectures on Chaucer, delivered at Johns Hopkins University in 1914, have recently been published under the title of "Chaucer and His Poetry." It is, I think, hardly too much to say that this is one of the most interesting books on Chaucer that has ever appeared. Based upon profound and exact knowledge, it is as far as possible removed from pedantic scholarship. It is instinct throughout, with the liveliest enjoyment of Chaucer's art and its purpose is to impart...
...dust-spreading brooms. Nevertheless, these old dormitories are now equipped with all the conveniences of Mt. Auburn street, with the exception of swimming pools and elevators. And it need hardly be said that any man who cannot forego these two luxuries and undergo the other minor discomforts is, to say the least, a sybarite...
...your editorial comment this morning on a communication which challenges the motives of "preparedness," you say that it is "inconceivable how anyone can charge that the possibility of an invasion of the United States is a mere figment of the imagination...