Word: though
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With a modesty at once genuine and in part justified, Mr. Butler-Thwing characterizes his slender volume of Verses and prose Essays as "the sincere, even if badly expressed, life-and-death thoughts of a very young man." The Essays, though competent in style, will hardly outlive the occasion which they originally served. The Verses have somewhat more of significance and distinction. Thoughtful and manifestly sincere, they are the expression of a serious mind which has not yet reached its full maturity. Without sincerity there is no great art, but sincerity alone is not quite the whole story. Mr. Butler...
...Though the undertaking is still new, many of the publications issued by the Press have had a gratifyingly large sale, the total business for the first year of its existence being nearly $50,000. A few instances of books that have justified their publication by the University may be mentioned. A technical treatise for lumbermen, declined by every commercial publisher to whom it was submitted, has made a handsome profit, but more important for the University has been the fact that it has won the warm commendation of woodsmen in all parts of the country (some 2500 having secured...
...given weight in the choice of managers. The competition is hard but short, and furnishes excellent business training. In addition to this an invaluable knowledge of the financing and distibution of a college daily is gained. The positions to be filled have a great deal of responsibility attached, and though all cannot attain to these offices, the training is of sufficient value to warrant a large competition from 1917. For further details candidates should apply to J. H. Baker...
...West-minster Abbey, England. There are included in the volume four ancient portraits of Dante and some notable, quaint reproductions from the illustrations to Lord Vernon's famous "Inferno." Canon Boyd-Carpenter, for twenty-seven years Bishop of Ripon, has long been recognized as a student of Dante, though this is the first book he has ever written on the subject. His lectures here were very popular among students and others, the New Lecture Hall being well filled on each occasion...
From the prospects it appears that either Pennsylvania or Cornell will win, Pennsylvania having perhaps the better team of the two. Though weaker than least year, Harvard will present some strong contestants...