Word: write
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good deal of sense of character. His style is perhaps too nervous and choppy--the sentences too persistently short and periodic, but it is a sound story, and a vivid one. And Mr. Barnett gives us some extremely readable, and sometimes witty, theatre-notes. Both of these contributors write as if they did it with pleasure, and as if they weren't afraid of being "literary". Of the other contributors, not quite so much can be said. They play safe, they do not aim so high, and they fail, in consequence, to be very interesting. Life--one keeps thinking...
...months ago I came from Honolulu; lost track of news for a month; got back numbers of TIME; found out all I wanted to know. Especially interesting to me was your write-up of the Dole Flight, but you made two mistakes: that Mrs. Jensen was a small woman, and you misquoted her-as did all other papers-upon the arrival of her second-prize-winning husband. Everyone, especially Mrs. Jensen, was expecting Martin Jensen in first, as last reports had indicated that he was leading. Even after Art Goebel's plane had been sighted in the distance...
...Greek Department at Harvard brushes away our last hold on culture. We are led to believe that as Apollo had Marsvas skinned a mile, so the Business School, suckled in the years of its infancy in the Classical Library, carries on the torch of culture. And I write with more feeling because not only the truth about Harvard has been exposed, but also about myself. For the five courses in Greek which the writer pointed out as constituting the curriculum at Harvard constitutes at the same time my sole instruction in that department as an undergraduate. The Yale News...
...inclination has grown up among students to divide all the world into those who belong and those who do not, and to make the line of demarcation a college degree. To have taken isolated examples from the ranks of the magnates who write for the American Magazine would have proved as little as over, but the knowledge that two-thirds of those who enter college have come from homes that never knew the framed degree is soothing balm to the knowledge that Bryn Mawr's best is 1.8 children per graduate...
Also in dark letters you print the word "culprit." What should have followed this was a description of Petlura. He was the guilty person, the criminal. Instead you write so ignorantly or purposely of Schwartzbard. You gave the honor of a picture in your magazine to Schwartzbard and call him "murderer." There in that place should have been another, that was declared so by the most impartial and fairest court in the world...