Word: style
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from the vagueness of style and the faults of proof reading which are concomitant with the advent of the college year, the editorial attempted in a certain direct fashion to suggest that too little was done by those who had been some time at Harvard and in Cambridge to help orient the first-year graduate student who comes here from a distant college or university. It was suggested that the CRIMSON had some definite plans for assisting in that work, but, more to the point at this time, it was also suggested that efficient organizations of Harvard graduates, endowed...
News candidates will be occupied with writing of various kinds. Besides the terse, vigorous style required in producing news stories, there will be ample opportunity for more creative writing. The special articles, feature writing, and interviews with illustrous persons, which comprise a large part of the work, all hang for their success upon individual talent and personal idiom. The training is beneficial not only in developing writing ability, but also in forming habits of rapid, accurate expression...
Competition in the Editorial Department implies a good literary style and an ability for lucid expression within limited space. Candidates will be expected to write editorials daily on topics connected with the University, or on subjects of humorous or political interest...
...Significance. This not only should be but probably will be one of the celebrated novels of the year. The author's real desire to interest, inform, amuse and move her reader is felt and fulfilled without visible effort. There is wit, grace, fine feeling and a style which, while lively, never begs applause. The people are so real that there will be endless discussion of who is actually who: Sculptor St. George is Sculptor Saint-Gaudens, and so on. If the fabrication of fictitious letters and other personalia are remarkable, the character relations are even more so, especially...
...Democratic; and the State Democratic Committee controls the entire procedure, pays all bills, arranges speaking programs, allots expenses on a pro-rata basis. Aspirants speak seriatim the same night in the same place, a method obviously conducive to personalities and retorts discourteous. In this "joint debate" system the old-style ranters of the Dial-Blease ilk rave, rage, fume, spume, howl- over imaginary issues. Under these conditions Washington really expects long-haired sombreroed political buffoons-and that is just what Washington sometimes gets, although Senator Smith is a happy exception...