Word: whether
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...present time, for it will not only affect poetry, to what extent no one can say, but it will change human life all over the globe. The hackneyed question as to how it will affect poetry is of little consequence, for the great European struggle will not decide whether we are to write in sonnet form or in vers libre, but will overturn principles and theories that have been adhered to for centuries...
...Shailer Matthews, Professor of Historical and Comparative Theology and Dean of the Divinity School in the University of Chicago, and William Belden Noble Lecturer at the University for 1916, has a book on "The Spiritual Interpretation of History." The author seeks in these lectures to determine from actual events whether history has not in itself spiritual forces which may result in "a renewed allegiance to our threatened idealism and a revived confidence in the might of right." "The Religious History of New England" is by J. Winthrop Platner, Andover Professor of Ecclesiastical History; George E. Horr, president of the Newton...
...even when someone has blundered. There will be a lot of mistakes made; we expect them; they are bound to happen. But when the game begins, do your command as it is given. Back your officer, back your country, back your Government. There must be team play, regardless of whether or not we think the command is the right...
Some weeks ago the University inquired of M. Jusserand, the French ambassador to the United States, whether it would be possible to obtain French officers, disabled from active service, as military instructors at Cambridge. The ambassador took up the matter enthusiastically with his Government, which with the greatest generosity agreed to send these officers and to pay their salaries and expenses. The following announcement in regard to their arrival was given out at the College Office yesterday...
...full evening. This deficiency has evidently been noticed by the sponsors of the play, so they have sought to hide it under a copiousness of suggestive references, which brings howls from a student audience, but hardly compensate even Mr. Broad-Minded Listener. He smiles, of course, but always wondering whether it is with or at the players...