Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...blank verse poem on "The Sphinx's Silence" by Mr. J. Gazzam, Jr., is a dignified effort. It includes several excellent lines, but several others, too, which are far from pentametric. With its conclusion that woman is hard to understand there will be no general disagreement. Mr. Heffenger's thoughtful sonnet "Success" is simply but unpoetically expressed. One is less certain of Mr. Rogers' ideas in the long poem "Death"--a large subject--pent in a rather exacting rhyme scheme. If the author had been less vague and more self-disciplined, it might have been easier to share his vision...
...sufficient number of men to form an efficient orchestra. Former members of the St. Louis and Philadelphia symphonies, Boston Opera, and the N. E. Conservatory of Music, and a leader of a Boston theatre have complained that the annual try-outs are given by conductor-pianists who do not understand the wind and string sections. The last three conductors had no previous experience, the last two were graduates; the conductor-elect is an outside professional. Is this not the same as having a professional coach play on the football team? Thirteen "Symphony men" and some N. E. Conservatory students played...
...Scholarship Service Bureau" and now he has a tutor in Mathematics. Believe me I'll do my best not to have him thrown out in June, but how to prevent it I hardly know, but I urge my son to study hard and do his best. Now cannot you understand very easily that "Who is to blame?" Why the system, of course, is wrong to make them all keep one pace with no help outside from the teacher. There should be personal help. what good is such a pace? My son got an F in English. Do you wonder that...
...size. I also think that the national government should secure a large stock of the best possible artillery of all sorts,--again the best in the light of this war's experience. I hope, too, that the several states will improve their present volunteer militia system. About what I understand to be General Leonard Wood's recommendation, that the term of enlistment in the regular army should be shortened to one year, or even six months, so that a large number of men would graduate from the army every year, to be held as a reserve, I am doubtful...
...hard to overcome. But one clear-sighted diplomat, one President Wilson, is of more practical worth for the actual preservation of peace than all our present navies and soldiers combined. As one correspondent has said, it is the voter who must ultimately decide this question, who must understand his own interests well enough to secure and support the right diplomatists. Consequently it seems evident to us that one voter correctly informed is worth several voters who can merely "shoot a raight...