Word: things
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only thing which I can say I really have seen in America is Harvard University. During my stay in Cambridge, I had the great privilege of being the guest of the illustrious Professor James, and a more refined and charming hospitality I cannot conceive...
...have been, unless the ways of Heidelberg inns have sadly changed, the twenty predecessors of Karl Heinrich. The other parts went with varying degrees of competence; the chorus of students scarcely needed to believe itself German; and if Mr. Barnes-Hochberg's prince lacked romantic illusion--a very difficult thing to attain and one that very few of the impersonators of Karl Heinrich have gained--the speeches and the episodes that the play gives him helps to bring it. Slowness of pace was the short-coming, almost inevitable with a foreign tongue that made momentary gaps and let the interest...
...course, may have been done with the best of intentions, but the men who "borrowed" these books must be either very lazy or very spineless not to have returned them. Perhaps if these students do not think that they should be fined, they will do the next best thing, and return the books by the same means which their abstraction probably necessitated...
...most serious objections to advertising such an instance of bad taste. There are plenty of useful fields to which the Political Club might profitably turn its attention without running the risk of having the University credited with the ill-considered officiousness of a small group. The best thing that the Political Club can do now is to drop the whole idea of having a straw ballot...
...proper punishment is not the expulsion of the individuals, for the Polo Club will be drunk again next year, and much the same thing may happen. The evil cannot be remedied by a reform of the club, because, being a purely Freshman organization, there is no steadying influence to keep it straight. The only thing that can be done which is worth doing at all is the complete extinction of this sole surviving Freshman club. What is the best method for doing so is not here to be discussed...