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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...filled it, as anyone outside of College will tell you, with no little distinction. The Monthly has fallen a prey to all the ills that flesh is heir to, has had periods of wild absurdity and of utter dullness; but it has ever avoided that smiling self-complacency which is the predominating note of our other College papers. Nowhere, however, does a heretic find shorter shrift than in an American university, so, particularly at this time when orthodoxy in word and deed has been raised to a mystic religion, there will be few to weep the Monthly's temporary demise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Timidity in Current Monthly | 5/5/1917 | See Source »

...application will be received unless accompanied by a self-addressed envelope with 12 cents in stamps for postage and registry fee, and checks or cash for the amount of tickets applied for. Checks should be made payable to the 1917 Harvard Class Day Committee and sent to H. H. Dadmun '17, Thayer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPLICATIONS CLOSE JUNE 2 FOR ALL CLASS DAY TICKETS | 4/27/1917 | See Source »

...among our present-day dramatists. In the longer play of this week we find more traits of excellence, if not always fully developed at least suggested. It is the second in a series of plays which shall be increasingly good as the author becomes through experience freer and more self-reliant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRAIG PLAY ABOVE AVERAGE | 4/26/1917 | See Source »

...cards for the Committee on Electives. With barely a week left ninety-four per cent of the undergraduates have shirked this simple duty. In itself a minor matter, such a record today has a fateful significance. It indicates a curious lack of perspective, and, worse still, a lack of self-control--precisely what the critics have asserted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRITING OUR OWN JUDGMENTS. | 4/26/1917 | See Source »

...different, Porto Rico has enjoyed as great a degree of material prosperity under American domination, as Cuba, my answer would be that the descendants of Don Quixote think more highly of their honor than of their bodily comfort. For myself, I say that I prefer a thousand times self-support with all the troubles and vicissitudes which it entails to the shelter and comfort of the walls of Sing Sing. And to the Sanchos who would ridicule my typical Latin sentimentality, let the noble sentimentality of the Belgian people which saved the world from Prussian militarism be an answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Porto Rico and the War. | 4/13/1917 | See Source »

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