Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...second collection is a more interesting one, both by reason of its size and of its special object. The library of Charles Schefer, a noted French editor and writer, was sold last May in Paris. It was rich in books on the history of Turkey and on the Eastern question, a subject in which M. Schefer was an acknowledged authority. Through the kindness of Mr. J. Randolph Coolidge, the Library was able to bid at the sale and purchased 529 volumes. These make a notable beginning of a collection on the Eastern question, which Mr. Lane intends to make...
...first article, "The Relations of Radcliffe College with Harvard," by Professor Wendell, is most timely. At once vigorous and moderate, the writer certainly carries his point "that unless a strong public sentiment declares itself against the principle of co-education at Harvard, complete co-education will slowly establish itself here," and that we shall lose our "traditional school of manly character." The menace is shown to be real and present. Our only hope, the writer says, lies in the possibility that by proper endowment Radcliffe may continue to grow as "a sweet, sound, every day college for girls...
...Significance of the International Meet," and shows, in a truly sportsmanlike fashion, just what was meant and brought about by the contest between the Harvard-Yale athletes and those of Oxford and Cambridge. "The Madness of Robert Martin," by R. C. Bolling '00, is hardly one of the writer's best stories. The phrases are now and then a little too robust, sometimes too reminiscent of the interminable Kipling; and though one can understand Martin's rebellion against society, his reconciliation seems rather abrupt, rather arbitrary. Still, the story runs brisk and strong, and is filled with genuine love...
...object of the work is to portray life at Princeton as it has been and as it now is. In the description of student life in the earlier days of the college, the writer points out the circumstances under which many of Princeton's timehonored traditions have originated and the effect they have had upon the customs of the undergraduates of today...
...writer, intimating that the Harvard undergraduate considers the war with Spain "unnecessary and unjust," and denouncing our law-makers as "unscrupulous," declares that it is yet necessary, under our faulty democratic government, to give the war an "unconditional moral support." How this extraordinary task is to be accomplished he explains with the utmost lucidity. The undergraduates are to contribute to the "austere and thoughtful academic influence" of the University by refusing to enlist until a call shall be received to which they can, without loss of dignity, respond. Meanwhile, the fighting shall be left to fellows whose fathers...