Word: stamps
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...merit honor and distinction, that question might be a fit one for argument. But merit is not the criterion of election. It is rather type. In every one of the big clubs, it is the effort of those in charge of the election to secure men of the same stamp as themselves and their club-mates. This makes a rigid system, changing little from year to year--the personnel must conform to a certain type or be rejected. The smaller clubs strive to secure men of a specific character providing there is any chance for choice after the big clubs...
...turn the shafts of his penetrating criticism. Ridicule was his favorite weapon for the banal and he had no mercy for the pious shams, the stuffed dummies that persist in all literature. Always he was sane, sound and exacting. Thousands of young Americans have left his classroom bearing the stamp of his taste and the stores of his learning...
...Your stamp, John Harvard, is a seal upon the faith of an army of your sons. It unites them, strengthens them, and gives them everlasting pride. We who have once borne your banners can never again escape your guidance. In seeking to be worthy of it shall we find our reward and growth...
...pale pink, saccharine sentiment. Mr. Nelson's "Early Frost" is skillful work on a mighty theme; but its figures, although effective hints in themselves, are too familiar to be easily coordinated into a single, sharp effect. Mr. Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something because he cannot hold it back--because he has something to say. And at the end of his bold plea for individuality and self-reliance there comes to the reader a sense of satisfaction--dispersal of a doubt...
...loose construction and the stamp of the amateur were the desiderata in light opera, "Her Soldier Boy," now playing at the Shubert Theatre, would take first rank among such productions. Perhaps no play of recent years has so openly defied all dramatic fundamentals, for there is an incoherence which runs through the piece that even a prejudiced audience is not able to overlook. Had the work been done by novices, we might be more charitable in passing judgment, but such veterans as Victor Leon and Rida Johnson Young will certainly not enhance their reputation by such workmanship as this...