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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...main thing to be done is to use the recognized means of conciliation to effect a compromise that will at least partially satisfy both sides. The strike has developed so that at present the issue is largely one of prestige, and the original issues have been forgotten...
...work for the formation of a "moral personality to serve the social order. When you have finished this work," said the Cardinal, "and have learned that all converges toward a single end,--that is, God;--then you will have realized moral unity and personality, which is the most beautiful thing in the world...
...rest of the letter adopts a very different tone. "Mobs will be mobs" it says in effect. "The writer does not apologize for the outbreak, but merely attempts to explain it cause. . . . only to be expected . . . . who can answer for . . . . No wonder . . . ." Moral censure is certainly an ugly thing, and one likes to see it deprecated; but such deprecation to be effective should be consistent. If Mr. Rosenblatt writes in this truly Christian spirit of the lynching, then the least he can say of the original assault is that criminals will be criminals; that, in view of the number...
...real assessment possible. The Advocate ought not to allow philosophers in extremis to declaim upon the whimsies sponsored by Mr. J. M. Barrie. The essays on subjects of no special academic interest are, I think, all of them a little too over-mannered to be successful. The kind of thing they attempt can only be done well by a real master of the essay; and they belong rather to the sphere of well-meaning discipleship than of successful creation. The number by and large, is certainly above the standard of last year's Advocate. It would be admirable...
...Mister in "The Nude Romance" makes an amusing attempt at parody some of the material which has appeared in recent numbers of the Harvard Magazine. That sort of thing calls for a facile pen and wit of a high order. Mr. Mister gives promise of cultivating or acquiring these by dint of much practice. Although he is far from expert now, his work shows much promise, and even a poor attempt is better than none. Such parodies do much toward stimulating a healthy rivalry, in the same way that Zeppelin raids during the war were almost invariably followed...