Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...publication in yesterday's CRIMSON of a pacifist advertisement headed, "Do the People Want War?" seems to have called forth much verbal criticism. We hear vague mutterings of a perverted press, a press cajolled by dastardly dollars, and the bullion of Bryan's boys. But as a matter of fact the CRIMSON is simply following in its advertising columns the policy it has maintained on the editorial page. The editors themselves may be militarists, pacifists, or suffragettes--but they recognize at least two sides to every question and believe that every side should have opportunity to voice its own opinions...
...Sonnet" is strongly reminiscent of Mr. E. A. Robinson's poetry, it is interesting and impressive in and for itself. In Mr. Norris's sonnet on the sonnet and in his three quatrains, "Poets Forgotten" there is everywhere abundant grace, charm, case of manner, and a rare sense of verbal music...
Slowly but steadily the moderate, intellectually balanced undergraduates are rallying around the standard of intelligent preparedness. The last day of the enrolment drive is here. The heavy guns and the lighter artillery have shelled the enemy's entrenchments for an entire week with countless rounds of written and verbal exhortation. Since the ground in front of Hill No. 1200 has been well prepared, today's final charge ough to be a triumphant rush...
This criticism applies to Mr. Fay's story of "The Penitent Highwayman," to "The Festive Season," which could appear with slight verbal changes in the Christmas number of any college paper year after year, and especially to "A Late Spring," a story in which Mr. Cuthbert Wright subtly analyzes the emotional crisis of a young man who takes himself very, very seriously, and falls in love at first sight with a girl who is already engaged. He lives in the Bronx, or Kensington, or Evansville--one cannot tell; he has been to school in England or America, and to Harvard...
...Commanding Officer, Harvard Regiment, at 1.30 o'clock, assembles his battalion commanders and staff, and issues the following verbal orders...