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...editors of the present issue of The Harvard Advocate have striven, as good editors always should, to produce a well balanced issue. And as far as the amount of pagination devoted to the various branches of literature is concerned, they have succeeded. Prose fiction is represented by three stories, criticism by a note on James Branch Cabell, an editorial and three book reviews, and poetry by two items...
Later the very military groups he had striven for and financed forced M. Paderewski into an exile of silence, reserve and dignity. His utterance last week was characteristically entitled "Poland & Peace...
...There can be no naval peace without agreement with England and the United States, nor peace on land without agreement between France and Germany," for which agreement M. Herriot has earnestly striven...
...house has risen; it is given Not by one citizen or State; it stands, Given to ns by many hundred hands American and British; nay, each race Upon this earth has helped to build this place. Lovers of Shakespeare everywhere have striven. Every man gave it out of all earth's lands...
...nights. In the end he surrendered the key, confessed himself beaten; the bucket was displayed. After four Dionysiac weeks the opera company departed. Shouted Lawyer Belotti: "What are we? A little town. What did these guests bring us? A little music. And yet-we have felt enthusiasm, we have striven, and we have made a little progress in the school of humanity!" With cheers the whole populace escorted the company a few miles on their way; and in the deserted square nobody saw what happened to Singer Nello and his mistress Alba except the mysterious woman who watched everything from...