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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Thayer's "Essay on Man" is a courageous attempt to do a difficult and dangerous thing. For the scope of the paper is almost as wide as the title suggests, and it is hard to write something new about "Man" in two columns and a half. When an essayist begins by saying, "There are men who say the commonplace in a commonplace manner," he sets a great temptation before the reviewer--a temptation which the present reviewer with difficulty resists. When Mr. Thayer next classifies men according to their ways of expressing themselves, he ought to find a place...
...University football squad resumed practice yesterday afternoon, and the one thing that was specially noticeable was that the squad, for the first time in approximately two weeks, had again reached its full quota of players. Thus the football team approaches its big games in generally excellent condition, except for a few who are inconvenienced with slight injuries. Those to return were Smith, Dana, Weatherhead, and Wendell. Captain Wendell, although his head is still bandaged, was out in football clothes, and took an active part in the practice. Wigglesworth, Bradlee, and Hollister were given a rest, watching the practice from...
...Professor Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia was a leading figure among the Taft delegation from New York at the Chicago convention, and had a large influence on the Republican platform; a former professor of Princeton is closely associated with the Democratic presidential canvas. It is a good thing that college men should divide in political issues and should discuss their principles...
...though short, is happily varied: timely discussion is succeeded by prose and verse in which time is little concerned and by editorial articles concise and to the point. Some of the work lacks technical skill; none of it is discreditable; and nearly all of it is interesting. The worst thing in the number is the elephantine finesse of the maxim appended to the table of contents...
Besides Britten's illuminating and necessary editorial on the examination system, the best thing in the number to an old editor--or at least the most comforting--is Douglas's farewell, written in "open and truculent satisfaction," patiently boosting the paper. The present board has done a good work; it has set up the shattered altar, and the smoke of the incense is sweet to the nostrils...