Word: wilfulness
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...never met Professor Matthews. Many of his works on the Drama I knew and admired. I had read and even published various articles on his habits of mind by men not nearly so wise. The other noon in company with William Lyon Phelps, Clayton Hamilton, Jesse Lynch Wil-liams?an ill-assorted but renowned trio ?I had an opportunity to talk with Professor Matthews. His anecdotes contain memories of Mark Twain, George Meredith, Oscar Wilde. Genial, kindly, brilliant, gay, stimulating, he is all things a literary gentleman should be. Somehow, and quite without seeming to patronize him, I want...
CHILDREN OF THE AGE-Knut Ham-sun- Knopf ($2.50). Lieutenant Wil-latz Holmsen is the third one of that name to be lord of Segelfoss Manor. His grandfather had founded the estate and his father had maintained it. But Lieutenant Willatz Holmsen has none of the qualities to continue this work. He is proud, for one thing. If a tenant does not pay his rent, he will not ask for it. People might think he needed the money. If a demand is made upon him, he will accede to it rather than admit even to himself that he cannot afford...
...Democrats, those with political possibilities of a national scope fear to don it completely. There are some ?John W. Davis, Carter Glass, Newton D. Baker?who would be willing, but who, for reasons chiefly political, would not perfectly fit. Ironically enough, some of them were "too close to Wil- son." Outside of politics there are Edward W. Bok, a publicist, A. Lawrence Lowell, Ray Lyman Wilbur?but none of national proportions?none except the rugged, unassuming, eloquent bachelor of Youngstown, Ohio. Certainly ex-Justice Clarke never expected the honor. A year and a half ago when he retired from...
Presumably, however, the plan at Columbia has been drawn up to provide such necessary machinery. But there still remains a valid objection to the scheme as a whole. Of course, practical business men wil decry it as making education a soft sinecure--or a softer sinecure than they say education is at present. The objection does not follow naturally, but it may follow in this case and so throw discredit on the whole trend of the collegiate educational system. The proposal to abolish examinations has come not through evolution and the gradual growth of the desire the learn...
...Freshman forward line of Gherardi, Gans, Crooks, Tevvett, and Pruyn will start intact, but two changes have been made by Coach Wale in the backfield. MacKinnon, a forward, wil probably start at fullback beside Morey, and Goodhue, who has also been seen in the forward line, will be at right half. Burnett and Hale will fill the other halfback positions and Woodard will again guard...