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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...could allow its members to voice freely their thoughts and sentiments either in public or in private, or it could impose a strict censorship upon the character of all speech and "muzzle" the mouths of students and professors alike. No censorship should be imposed upon thoughts or their utterance. If the University were to decree what its professors and students should or should not say, then it would be making itself responsible for any statement made by its members. A university does not profess to exist for that purpose. All of its energies and resources are to be expended...
...reached its full maturity. Without sincerity there is no great art, but sincerity alone is not quite the whole story. Mr. Butler-Thwing's poems are marked by delicacy of feeling and a certain just refinement of phrase, but they lack directness of inspiration and first-hand freshness of speech. They are earnest, eager, painstaking and -- traditional. The author has not yet quite released himself from his models,--for a guess, Tennyson in poetry and Pater in the prose. Of the poems, "The Death of Penelope" is by far the longest flight; and it is well sustained. The poet...
...writer, a reviewer of books or of plays and pictures and music. But in the beginning the reporter must be content and must be able to state plain facts in a plain way. The young man who expects to enter journalism must teach himself to do this. Flights of speech are out of place in the crisp and concise recording of the everyday facts in the burning of a house or the sale of a piece of property. First, last, and all the time, the beginner must write straight to the point. If he is satisfied that...
Three second prizes of $20 each were granted to Edward Warren Giblin '15, of Concord; Norman Wiley Loud '15, of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Benjamin Woronoff '15, of Boston. The subjects of the three speeches were, "What is the French Revolution," by Lamartine; "The Old South and the New," by Henry W. Grady; and the "Speech of Paul Clifford," by Bulwer-Lytton...
Following Major Higginson's speech, Dean Briggs was introduced. He avoided all discussion of the war itself, and confined his speech to the expediency of leaving important college work for a task to which duty and necessity have not yet made the call. Declaring that the courage and readiness of Harvard men in times of emergency has not, is not, and never will be doubted, he showed how they were ready in '61, and ready in '98, and said that if necessary they would be ready in 1914. Experience has shown that an entire regiment of Harvard...