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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hung-Ming maintains that before the "high and perfect types of humanity" can come to any great degree, there must first be the spiritual force to mould the types. At a time when many "candidates for the degree" are coming out of their last examinations saying. "Thank Heaven, I don't have to study any more", it seems somewhat of a question whence that spiritual force is coming. It will hardly come from the universities if we hold to the notion that education ends at Commencement--that from then on theoretical learning is to be replaced by practical learning. Those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AMERICAN BARBAROI | 6/15/1921 | See Source »

...poetry with an avowed message. Experience has taught us that all too often it forgets to be poetry at all, while the deepest, truest, clearest message comes from the poetry which pretends to be nothing more. So, if someone gives you the book, you will read it through, sigh. "Thank God for Robert Browning", and make a place on the bottom shelf or your bookcase, reflecting that here are those "songs of modern speech" which Andrew Lang weant when he wrote of the Odyssey...

Author: By A. B. D., | Title: PRESENT-DAY POEMS OF JOY AND FAITH | 4/29/1921 | See Source »

...reign of Queen Anne. But that the editors should have realized before they started on their career as Spectators. At any rate, after all is said and done, these sporadic leaflets at least provide amusement for the college, and help to break the monotony of conventional routine. We should thank them for that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ARISTOCRAT | 4/5/1921 | See Source »

Nathaniel Choate '22 of Framingham won the competition for the Junior Dance program design, according to an announcement of the Dance Committee last evening. The Committee wishes to thank S. F. Moorehead for his unusually good design, and H. R. Rehn, J. V. Spades, and E. L. Thaxter all of the Junior class for their contributions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Junior Dance Program Design | 2/24/1921 | See Source »

...Frederick L. Allen '12 has written an unusually thoughtful and thought-provoking review of the current Advocate. And because, like him, we cherish Mother Advocate, we wish to thank him for the stimulus of his opinions and to question some of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Challenge to Mr. Allen | 2/1/1921 | See Source »

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