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...vein of paradox is glimpsed beneath these suggestions, it should not blind us to their essential wisdom and justice. In one sense the cause of any individual college, or even of a group of colleges, is undoubtedly an individual or a group interest. But these are perilous days, in which little is apparent in the public prints beyond brute passions and rampant selfishness. The World may well linger over every manifestation of the more human forces in civilization. --New York Times...
...response to birthday congratulations from President Kaempf of the Reichstag, said: "I begin a serious and decisive year." The world did not know before that the Kaiser openly admitted the gravity of his situation. In the rest of his response, it is true, the Kaiser speaks in a different vein, but seven words of truth forced their way out among sentences of sham for public consumption. The Allies have tried to make things serious the decisive for over three years now, but Teutonic organization has made their game a slow one. This year, of all times, with the United States...
Perhaps the editorial was merely a "filler" or, indeed, it may have been written in the same lighter vein as the one concerning the expected visit to America of a member of the deposed House of Romaneff, which appeared some weeks ago on your second page, or many others, which I have read and forgotten...
...Eileen," formerly "Hearts of Erin," Mr. Herbert is in his very happiest musical vein, the love themes being handled with exquisite melodies, the "ensemble" music being particularly vivacious and stirring, and a new triumph for the composer appearing in his patriotic songs, the dash, rhythm, and swing of which brought repeated encores from an audience whose applause was induced rather by a spontaneous appreciation of the score than by any duty as descendants of Erin's Isle--which element does not characterize Boston audiences (?)--to commend the spirit of the songs. Perhaps Mr. Blossom has not constructed so definite...
...Paulding describes an affair of the heart in very different vein. He, too, is subtle and sensitive, bat not a bit serious, and he makes us feel that his irresponsible hero is an actual human, attractive, normal Harvard undergraduate, a trivial person, no doubt, but far more appealing than the disembodied soul who suffers through the story by Mr. Wright. Mr. Paulding has not made an important contribution to American fiction, but he has written easily the best thing in the Monthly, which leads one to hope that he will keep on writing college stories with the same delicate...