Word: writer
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...Washington has been principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institution since 1881, and is the leader in the movement for the industrial education of the negro of the South today. He is a well known writer and speaker on racial and educational subjects, two of his best known books being "Up from Slavery" and "The Story of My Life and Work...
...rule was passed in October, 1904. Although absent at the time, the writer believes that he is correct in assuming that the regulation simply indicates the unwillingness of the Athletic Committee to countenance the continuous devotion to athletics and the amount of absenteeism involved in membership on some University athletic team during the whole University year. The rule applies only to intercollegiate, not to interclass or intramural contests, and was not designed to prevent men from taking any amount of exercise desired, or even from indulging in continuous training...
Nicholas Tchaykovsky, the pioneer in the Russian struggle for freedom, Alexis Aladyin, the great peasant leader of the first Douma, and Kellogg Durland, the well-known writer on Russia and Siberia, will speak before the members of the Union in the Living Room at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. The object of their speeches is to present the exact state of affairs now prevalent in Russia, and to discourage further financial support to the Russian government...
...current number of the Monthly opens with a vigorous article by Alexander Forbes '04 on one aspect of the ever-present athletic question. The writer's main point is that, in abandoning the English attitude of "sport for sport's sake," American college athletes have not degraded but have elevated athletics, turning them to a moral discipline which study or mere play fails to afford. He is remarkably candid in admitting the moral evils in the present condition of football; but his argument fails to convince the reviewer mainly because it ignores the contrast between the widespread demoralization caused...
...jealousy best defines the attitude towards his nurse. In proportion as this revelation grows upon him, Mr. Noyes will triumphantly breast the temptations of 'recherche' work and the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding poets." Ten minutes of hard meditation on these words will help their writer to avoid "the weak offences that mar the early flights of budding" critics, if one may adapt some of his superabundant metaphor. Moreover, let him forswear for a year the word "muse...