Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...connection with some undergraduate activity. There is an unfortunate convention to the effect that college life is somehow not "real life"; whereas life with one's fellows in any community gives rise to the same political and ethical principles. In so far as the "Illustrated" stimulates men to think and write about the big problems as these appear in the present interests and activities, it cannot fall to promote intellectual seriousness and courage. It may also serve to give to undergraduate journalism a less fictitious and juvenile character...
...support to their fullest extent the only event of the year of its kind. There are still very many men in the class who could easily afford to join the Union and come to the dance, but who are unwilling to do so chiefly because they do not think that the Union dance will be sufficiently amusing. Of course it won't be amusing if they are determined that it won't be. The Union dance should above all be a class affair, and every man in the class should be willing to help to the best of his ability...
...Pulsifer. As for the prize-fight, in "The Champion," there is some vivid realism in the style that gives promise of an eventually competent reporter. The anther should study the great classic in this genre,--the account by Mr. John I., Sullivan of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, in, I think, The New York Journal. It was fought on Saint Patrick's Day, and there were in the audience, says that eminent feuilletonist, "nine lady sports all dressed in green." The seduction--"His Room-mate's Side of It"--is merely vulgar and uncharacteristic. An artist may sometimes feel inclined...