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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...which justifies it. I do not believe that Schofield Thayer's "Amica" exists in his imagination, much less in his experience; she is only a creature of his vocabulary. J. D. Adams's "The Greater Sunlight" conveys to me neither image nor idea nor emotion. The use of the word "lambent" should be forbidden to Monthly poets for the space of one year. When they apply it to worlds, it is too much. The two stanzas by the new president of the Monthly seem to be worth all the rest of the verse in the number. They are admirable...
...word is due the capital sketch of the personality of Robert-Fleury, by R. D. Skinner, and the good sense of the unusually well-informed editorials. These close with a fit expression of the unspeakable loss the Monthly and all of us have suffered in the death of Paul Mariett. "How well could we have spared for thee...
...change is necessary and wise, should the Constitution be altered. We will never go far astray if we adhere strictly to the fundamentals of that work which Gladstone rightly called the greatest single document ever struck from the brain of man. "Obsta principiis" was President Taft's watch-word...
...deserves its position. The review is sympathetic--almost prophetic; and the candor, simplicity and praise of the last paragraph certainly deserve reprinting in the CRIMSON. Professor Taussig's is the foremost, perhaps, but still only one of the academic departments which need to awaken to the influence of the word "social". "If one may speak in familiar terms in this the family circle of our Alma Mater, I would say that not the least interesting thing about this work, to my mind, is the revelation of the growth of the author. A comparison of this with his earlier works show...
...comment on this year's team would be complete without at least a word in commendation of Coach Winsor's services. Few outside of those who have followed amateur hockey at the Arena for the past two years, realize how much Winsor has done to make the Canadian sport popular in this part of the country. As a coach he stands head and shoulders above any other one man in "the States". In the many years he has coached Harvard hockey teams, his seven has either won the Intercollegiate Championship or finished second. Few Harvard coaches in any sport could...