Word: tales
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proportion of the older ones are serving the cause in one way or another at home. All this has won for the two great English universities a place in the popular affection and esteem such as they have perhaps never occupied before. In France there is precisely the same tale to tell. The tragedy of the situation there is perhaps not as evident at first sight as in England; for the "plant" of the continental university is so much smaller than that of a residential institution like Oxford or Cambridge that the outward effects of its desertion are less immediately...
...early ploughing had uncovered them, with the result that in many places the air was black with crows hovering about in search of carion. A strapping young peasant girl, whom we found later in the day doing two men's work in the heavy fields, told us a moving tale of how German soldiers had forced her at the point of the bayonet to dig graves for their fallen dead...
...very best stories published for some time in any college dream type; taking advantage of the form to blend richly poetical prose with a delicate sympathy for a child's fantasies. "Fools" is better than its abrupt title might lead one to expect. It is a realistic tale of a country flirt and her two admirers--one of them the village idiot. The climax is a really admirable touch of cynicism...
...banal harmony of the pages, however, is occasionally interrupted. Mr. Babcock's tale, "And Then He Had Him," is a grateful relief in its simplicity, directness, and real point. The trenchant theatrical reviews at the end are so good as to arouse a desire that the signature W. C. B. might be substituted for cer- tain well-known initials in the critical columns of a certain Boston newspaper. Mr. Murdock's short poem, although it has its "amethyst and pearl," its "gold and blue," is inspired by true feeling and possesses true significance. Perhaps the best thing in the number...
...Children's Players will present "The Yellow Bird," a tale of Old Salem, by Mrs. Pauline Bradford Mackie, of New York, in a final performance at the Wilbur Theatre, Boston, this morning at 10.30 o'clock, under the auspices of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. The production will be staged under the direction of Sam Hume. C. R. Roepper '10 will direct the orchestra. The following University men are in the east: D. L. Kennedy '17, F. D. Manson '18, M. Roth '17, C. Wetherall '08, and W. M. Silverman...