Word: travels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will call an organizing convention during the second week in March. At this time it is hoped that a representative group of students will gather to draw up a constitution, choose a name, and decide the policies of the new society. Every college and university within a day's travel of New York will be invited to take part in the convention...
...Brien's story of his visit among the child-like cannibals in the vale of Atuona, under the peak of Temotiu, has already won rank as a classic among books of travel. Although its author will never be held a great stylist, he is supremely readable. What is more important, he has the power to make his reader see the scenes which he describes so colorfully and know the quaint characters that live between his pages...
Barring those who have post-graduate plans for the Law, Engineering, or Medical Schools, it is astonishing how few members of 1921 know what they are going to do. Many intend to drift through the summer months, perhaps in idle recuperation from the winter's activities, perhaps in travel abroad,--guided by the hope that "something will turn up." Others have vague ideas about starting "on the street," usually for lack of a better notion as to what they are qualified to undertake. Still more expect to ask "the old man" for a job in his office until they...
...doesn't have to travel far in Europe to see how the penalty of the war has fallen upon the children. It has destroyed not only beautiful villages and historic buildings; but it has destroyed childhood--that is, the joys to which children are entitled. I have seen places where the children have forgotten how to play; they had to be taught all over again how to be children. I have seen thousands and thousands of children in France, and very many of them under five years of age did not know what Christmas...
...Blair's "is the best limited, the best expressed; there is the most warmth without fanaticism the most rational transport." VOLUMES CHOSEN FOR REVIEW IN THE CRIMSON'S CHRISTMAS BOOKSHELF December 18, 1920. OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS OF 1920. CLASS TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Fiction. Main Street. Sinclair Lewis. Harcourt. Travel. White Shadows in the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien Century. Biography. Theodore Roosevelt, and Autobiography Scribners. Essays. Dame School of Experience. Samuel Crofters Houghton Miffin. Letters. Familiar Letters of William James. Atlantic Monthly. Poetry. Heavens and Earth. Stephen Vincent Be net Henry Holt. Humor. Winsome Winnie. Steaphen Leacock. John Lane. History. Thought...