Word: seene
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...particular. . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, merely to speak the names in a single breath raises an atmosphere of jealous and aggressive rivalry. . . . Oxford, Cambridge -- there is an immediate suggestion of fifteenth century architecture, overgrown with ivy." In a word, English athletics have none of that bitterness too often seen here when some disputed point of small importance is held up to public view for weeks by the daily press. Such publicity, according to English ideas, smacks too strongly of professionalism, or at least lays undue emphasis on something that should be merely the recreation of gentlemen, not the object...
...CRIMSON will publish tomorrow a special Class Day number, with six extra pages, containing pictures of the Class Day officers, the Commencement speakers, the Harvard and Yale crews, a section of the new fence, and the Harvard Union as seen from Quincy Square...
...Rich '03 was seriously injured late yesterday afternoon by falling from an open window in the fourth story of Weld Hall. A short time before the accident he was seen reading a newspaper at the open window of his room, and it is believed that in some way he lost his balance and fell. Dr. Bailey was found almost immediately, and accompanied the injured man to the Cambridge Hospital, where fractures in the left arm and thigh were set. At a late hour last night, the patient was still under the influence of either, and it was impossible to determine...
...succeeds in this, he is indeed an artist. Comedy, as such, is essentially an art of civilized man, and develops in proportion to the development of man. The true actor must know the intention of the author, and the type of character he wishes to represent. He has seen life, imbibed its feelings; his character opens as he studies; he dons his costume and gradually merges into the character he would create. If an artist wishes to reproduce nature he must be a student of nature. Few geniuses are born and they are generally erratic, but incessant and faithful work...
That the system of primaries is responsible for this figure so dominant in recent elections may be easily seen. By it, nominations are left solely to those who have a purely commercial interest in politics; by it, therefore, members are sent to our legislatures who are the creatures of a few "wire pullers," and act only according to their orders. Another evil is always present in the larger cities. This is bribery for protection against adverse legislation. The claim is made that such vote-buying has become indispensable to the safety of large corporate interests. Of course, honest primaries would...