Word: thought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...five of its eight lines are very good. It makes you wish that Mr. Wheelock had tried to be similarly concise in his other verses, "For a Book of Poems," for even the fourteen lines of a sonnet are more than he needs for the expression of his thought...
...article only remains to be mentioned: Mr. Paul Davis's "Things that Remind You." There is too much exaggeration in the rambling little essay--especially at the end, which the writer no doubt thought more humorous than it is; but there is also shrewd and accurate observation of human nature. It has individuality than any other piece in the present Advocate...
...exceptional maturity of style and thought which marked much of the writing in the Monthly last session is notably absent from the present issue. Perhaps it is hardly fair to look for it in a first number, but it is clear that hard work as well as experience will be required before the new board can hope to reach the level maintained by Mr. Hagedorn and his associates. The material here presented is by no means bad, but it needs editing. The lay sermon on "College Dilettantism" which opens the number is admirable in tone and content, but could have...
...surprising success in a very difficult form of verse. A fantasy like Mr. C. H. Dickerman's "The Haunted Palace" could only be regarded as successful through the excellence of its technique. But the writer allows himself too much license to claim any triumph of this kind. Whenever the thought presses against the limits of the verse, the verse gives way and changes its form. This is hardly playing the game...
...occasions offer to undergraduates more opportunities for serious thought than the filling out of their list of courses at the beginning of the College year. A course of study, which in many institutions is wholly or in part determined and prescribed by their officers, is here worked out by each individual student in accordance with his tastes and aims. This almost unqualified freedom of choice, which is peculiarly Harvard's has often been criticised by those who doubt the ability of the average undergraduate to think intelligently for himself. They can no doubt, cite actual cases of misdirected energies...