Word: vitallizing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Dramatic Club is fortunate in the choice of its three-act play for this year. "The Voice of the People', by Mr. David Carb, is a play significant in several vital respects. It is significant, first of all, in its theme: a large, contemporary issue of American life, grappled with power and thoughtfulness. In dealing with his theme, moreover, Mr. Carb gives no sense of peering at life from behind college walls--a characteristic common to most college plays. In stead, he tackles life at first hand, out of the urgency of expression. Yet his skilful way of doing...
...find such recommendations for improvements and outlines of reform the Advocate has continued the policy inaugurated last year of holding a prize contest open to students of Harvard College. As subjects for the prize essays the Advocate has selected six vital problems of the University and allows the contestants to take any point of view they choose in considering the issue. This has been done with the hope of obtaining at least the beginnings of practical answers to these six important subjects. Certainly this contest affords an admirable chance to all students in the College to give their views...
...party, its reform program enacted, will disintegrate; for capital, which fills the party's war chest, and labor, which gives it most of its votes, cannot long lie together in peace." Inasmuch as from the Socialist point of view, the Republican and Democratic parties have already ceased to be vital forces, this would leave a clear field to the Socialist, were it not for an obstinate and eternal American fondness for and belief in individualism; the right of men to combine in various groups; the confidence that capital can be curbed and skilled management utilized without giving up the individual...
...first of a series of fortnightly talks for law men will be held in Phillips Brooks House tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock. R. H. Gardiner '76 will speak on matters of vital interest to young attorneys, Mr. Gardiner is one of the leading lawyers of Boston. All Law School men are cordially invited...
...only piece of fiction by Clarence Britten is not vital or significant enough to balance all the excellent criticism. Delicate, studied, as his stories always are, this one is a good example of the lack the average reader feels in them. One never feels he understands the people; one does not feel sure they understand each other. The author has so refined them that they are no longer the plain human sort one knows. Besides, they so seldom do anything worth while. They talk, not always brilliantly, and fade away somehow in whispers and twilight. They make one long...