Word: themes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...nearer to Harvard than the Stadium, which I visited and cheered myself hoarse in, at Saturday's game, but I have met men throughout this whole country in every walk of life who owe their start to Harvard and to Technology." Then he swung with characteristic vigor into the theme of his famous sermon...
...verse, only one of which contains anything remotely resembling even lukewarm tar. Mr. Rickaby's sonnet about the clash and reconciliation of his Muse and his Love, though smooth enough, is cloyed with pale pink, saccharine sentiment. Mr. Nelson's "Early Frost" is skillful work on a mighty theme; but its figures, although effective hints in themselves, are too familiar to be easily coordinated into a single, sharp effect. Mr. Murray Sheehan's two sonnets on "Fate," however, bear more clearly the stamp of vitalizing human experience. One feels that Mr. Murray is saying something because he cannot hold...
...Office Window at night" is Mr. Allinson's expression of revolt on the part of the city worker whose imagination carries him far away. Mr. Paulding's verse is tense and irregular; unlike many contemporary writers of tense and irregular verse, he is wise enough not to expand his theme unduly...
Among the incentives to student ambition at Harvard this year is a prize of $200 for the best paper on plumbing. What plumbing has to do with scholarship and its bearing on proficiency in Latin or football is not quite clear. Yet in a sense plumbing is a classical theme; the pipes, by which the water was conducted through the Roman baths were early examples of the plumber's art and no doubt a comprehensive academic dissertation on the subject would trace their relation to the modern bath...
With the advice of numerous orations, odes, and sermons still ringing in their ears the Seniors supposedly are prepared to solve any problem the world may present. The dominating theme of all this advice has been one of service and loyalty to this country of ours. The martial atmosphere of Europe and the present war could which hangs over the Mexican border have influenced young men to believe that the army and navy present the only opportunities to serve one's country. In times of national danger the method of service is undoubtedly clear. It is during "good times" when...