Word: writer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...subject will be "The Modern and Foreign Politics of France and Europe." The lectures will be given in February under the auspices of the Cercle Francais, but the dates and subjects of the separate lectures have not yet been announced. Mr. Tardieu is well known throughout Europe as a writer of books and articles on international politics. He has also held an important office under the French government as Governor of the French colonies in Africa...
...communication this morning the CRIMSON prints the somewhat contradictory sentiments of "1909" concerning the new football songs. The writer states correctly that either all the songs were below par or the Committee made a bad choice, but he weakens his second point by admitting that without doubt "it chose the least of 40 evils...
...places to real pathos; at times, however, the writer is not equal to the tragic situation. E. E. Hunt's little poem, "With a Gift of Shakespeare's Sonnets," is decidedly above the average of undergraduate poetry, while A. W. Murdock's "Hymn to Life" is conventional in subject matter and sometimes obscure in language. J. H. Wheelock's "Sea-Poems" contain some good passages, but there is too much self-consciousness in the poems...
...taste." Public criticism of teachers on the part of Harvard students has generally been marked by fairness and sincerity. This is eminently true in the present case. The reviewer's own experience as a student at Harvard makes him believe that there is foundation for the censure; but the writer would have strengthened his case and improved his editorial, had he avoided such phrases as "rickety and epileptical morality," "cataclastic convulsion," "temporary tetanus of the entire intellectual functions...
Professor Bateson is a distinguished English writer and lecturer on heredity, and has the reputation of being a very enthusiastic and entertaining speaker. He came to this country to attend the International Zoological Conference held in Boston last summer, and has been Stillman Lecturer at Yale this fall. Professor Bateson is about to return to England...