Word: thinks
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...strictly applicable. In examining various instances of these inconsistencies the conclusion seems to be that the high poetic value of the Iliad must be considerably detracted from. We see many of the similes and descriptions taken over ready-made from order books or traditions, and although we might think this to be fatal to originality, we must consider the exact meaning of the term. We should regard a work of art original when it produces an impression of a living source. What really shows art is intensity of imagination on the part of the poet, which makes us feel upon...
...graduates and undergraduates, athletes and non-athletes--have not pulled together in athletics. We have too often used petty disagreements for wedges to force apart our common interests. Mr. Whitney attributes this lack of unity to the "adoration of the unbridled ego." Perhaps he is right, but we think it is rather the result of generations of individual thought and action which have made Harvard stand for what it does today. For the newspaper notoriety which our disagreements invariably gain, we are not to blame except as they originate from Harvard men, and renewed expressions of contempt in these cases...
...thought, and that Mr. Aladyin is a reformer. That he is the kind of reformer whose methods make almost impossible the task of the real reformers, the men of education and high ideals, men like our own President and the members of his Cabinet, we do not stop to think, Enthusiasm for a good cause is an ennobling thing and the more of it we have the better, but we must also remember that as representatives of the University we must be careful not to lose our heads. In the eyes of the world we are not Smiths and Joneses...
...come when "in justice to Harvard" Yale men should drop the inherited prejudices which have existed and should recognize that after all both universities have more or less the same social ideals. Although we do not admit that the Harvard atmosphere has ever been narrow or snobbish, we do think that a healthy wave of democracy and intelligent class loyalty has swept over the University during the last college generation. We have come to realize that a large University has some disadvantages which tend to counteract its many advantages and which can only be overcome by some unusual effort--artificial...
...whole the last Advocate is not as good as several numbers I have seen. It suffers, I think, for being an Easter number...