Word: talents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulty in making "black" rhyme with "through" and "prevail" with "Princeton". What we need for Princeton are songs manufactured for the purpose. There is no reason at all why the project of writing some words and music peculiarly suited to the Tiger should have to be popularized. There is talent here, and a demand--witness the numerous letters on the subject. All we need is a supply to meet the demand...
...university president must be a man of a rare and manifold genius, and in return for his talent he is awarded a prestige such as few men can claim. He wields a great influence, not only over the affairs of the day, but especially over those of the future, for the education of the leaders of the coming generation is under is guidance. The fact that American university presidents have always been men of surpassing worth is not the least important factor in the country's progress. Cornell will be more than living up to this tradition when she inaugurates...
Possibly the reason is that there is no literary talent at Harvard to be brought out; but that is hard to believe. Possibly Harvard teachers have been so occupied in teaching the average man to write moderately well and in drilling men in the facts of literary history that few of them have had time or energy to stimulate the unusual man man to do his utmost. Certain it is, in any case, that Harvard writing today needs a general intellectual atmosphere more favorable to literary production. Yale has had such an atmosphere for many years, whether because...
...will be answered by every able undergraduate who is genuinely interested in writing. If it is, we may possibly see the development of a group of college writers who will make New York editors do what now they seldom dream of doing--sit up and watch Cambridge for new talent...
...Copley with "Ruddigore" has come to a sudden end. The illness of one of the leading performers and a dwindling patronage are the rumored cause of this untimely debacle. By one of those freaks of luck so common in the theatrical game, a company, blessed with no little talent and a house of proper size for the audiences which its work should attract, has nevertheless been unable to keep its head above water. It is a curious thing that Boston is not only incapable of supporting regular grand opera, but has witnessed the gradual disintegration of the Jewett Repertory Company...