Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Tribune: "The story is at once serious and sentimental and is saved only from downright banality and absurdity by its swift, fine, unusual limning of character, its philosophical digressions, and its descriptive certainty and distinction...
There seems scarcely a loop-hole out of the pitiful plight in which England finds herself. In the midst of such vigor Malthus offers no, remedy. There are possibilities in Swift's old cure for the starvation in Ireland. And yet it is only too probable that the English population would continue to recreate itself like the hydra-headed monster. To adopt the fatalistic attitude and let nature take its course would doubtless lead in a short time to such swarms that all Britain would be a vast human sardine-can. Yet there is a gleam of hope like...
...attempt of the author to show the evil side of college life so that someone else may come along and remedy it, is, I think, laudable. However in the zeal for reality one must remember that even Truth has its place. One has only to read Swift's poem on a lady's dressing room to appreciate the extreme to which realism may be carried. Desirability will always remain a paramount condition. Our bad side is incidental and our faith in college should be great...
...University Register announced last night the election of Donald King Barnes '27 of Far Rockaway, N. Y., to the editorial department; and of Carl Thomas Crosby '25 of Allston, Williams Swift Martin 2 E.S. of Washington, D. C., and Kirke Marshall White '26 of Oswego, N. Y., to the business department. These elections are subject to the approval of the Student Council...
...experiment was opened four years ago by the former Helen Swift, daughter of the packer. In 1890 she married Edward Morris, President of Morris & Co., also packers. He died in 1913, leaving her some millions. In 1917 she was married again, to Francis Neilson, who is one of the editors of The Freeman, When the publication was started she guaranteed its expenses for three years, to give it a start, although her name was not publicly attached to the paper. At the end of three years it had not gained a sufficient circulation to be selfsupporting. So she extended...