Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...verse, Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez contributes a Christmas sonnet in dignified yet not quite comfortable English; Mr. Greene a quatrain, which, like most attempts at packing poetry, wants ease and life; Mr. Aiken a longer poem ("The Spirit of Christmas Eve"), which shows little individuality, and not much responsiveness in vocabulary. Mr. Wheelock appears twice in this number, neither time in a Christmas spirit and neither time at his best. "The Return after Death" is ambitious and in spots effective, but suffers from want of metrical skill and from occasional weakness of word. The "Song," though less faulty, is also less...
...should cease to look upon actors as a class who turn to the stage from a want of anything better. The American stage depends upon more than transient stars for its real value as an educational influence and a transmittendum to posterity. Should not Harvard with its recognized advantages do its part toward developing actors of recognized ability? We demand the highest qualifications for teachers and members of other professions. Is there any real reason why we should not demand an equally high standard for the men who divert us in our leisure hours, and, since demands alone are generally...
...What I want to disparage is the lethargic satisfaction now running among the majority of the undergraduates who really are the ones to work a change for the better. These continued defeats are doing the College no good, if not positive harm, through public opinion which so often jumps at conclusions; and what they might be I leave to be considered. I should like to see the question of football threshed out in these columns and some action taken, no matter how radical. GRADUATE
...truth; lover of righteousness, hater of iniquity; a hero in fight, a saint in prayer; he proclaimed as human invitations the perfection of God, the authority of conscience, the assurance of immortality. 'Sin to rebuke, to break the captive's chains; to call thy brethren forth from want...
...land on Soldiers Field, but as yet we have heard of no steps taken toward making it available for use. It is hard to believe that the importance of a prompt payment of the debt on the Stadium is greater than that of supplying grounds for the men who want to play games for sport's sake...