Word: statement
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...only critical essay in the number, on "The Catastrophe in Modern Tragedy," is excellent in its fundamental idea, but defective in expression. The statement of what the writer has in view is made in the opening paragraph, but so obscurely, and with so little stress, that it is soon completely lost. And though possessed of a knowledge of his subject and an extent of reading rare in an undergraduate, the lack of unity due to this failure to show the connection between the main idea and the details does much to weaken and to lesson the value of the essay...
...statement by the Photograph Committee that only photographs taken by the class photographer "will be considered," calls for some explanation. If it means that Seniors who have already had satisfactory sittings elsewhere can not have their photographs reproduced in the Album, the reason for such a requirement is by no means apparent. In making up the Album in former years, the work of various photographers has been used, it being presumed that in each case a Senior submits his most faithful likeness, regardless of where or by whom it was taken. The question raised is why may not a Senior...
...College year 1898-99 have been given to the public. The volume contains, besides President Eliot's report to the Board of Overseers, the reports to the President of the Deans of the seventeen departments, the Curators of four museums, and the Dean of Radcliffe College; and the statement of the financial affairs of the University, by Mr. C. F. Adams, 2d, '88, treasurer...
...reference to the popular impression that the College is burdened with scholarships and that a surplussage of such aid tends to place a discount on real deserts, the Dean makes a most enlightening and authoritative statement. By far the greater part of the work done in the College is done by men who are absolutely independent. It is not money alone which stimulates men in scholarly pursuits, all of which is very commendable and perhaps natural. But it is not so well known that "many deserving and needy students fail to win any scholarships; and that there...
...very refreshing to hear an economist say that the principal thing on which he relies in carrying out his work of leading Yale University is the sentiment of graduates. He has not ignored the practical side, as abundant direct passages and frank statements testify, but he declares without qualification that the sentiment of the graduates of Yale is the most important support which the leader of Yale can have in carrying out the most important work of Yale. This is just as true a statement as it is an unexpected one for an executive to make. Let this always...