Word: writer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...anti-individualistic? Is only the man who swallows tradition, keeps in the straight and narrow path of past systems of morals, and who, above all, agrees with you--is only he a distinguished ethical thinker? Clearly, it is not Mr. Russell's distinction as a philosopher against which the writer directs this remark, but Mr. Russel's philosophy. If Mr. Russell is wrong in his attitude toward the war and in his ethical views, he is certainly not hasty or unphilosophic...
...much he disliked his philosophy, that no single man is better fitted to "make philosophy a living interest in this America of ours which so greatly needs it." A bowing acquaintance with philosophy "in this America of ours" at the present day would have made it clear to the writer that exactly that is what Mr. Russell's work as much as the work of anybody is actually doing. A STUDENT OF PHILOSOPHY...
...handwriting of many students reverts to childhood forms; even under normal conditions, others seem never to have advanced beyond the elemental, unformed state. English F takes care of the worst cases, but the kind of penmanship that "gets by" in college--though even here a disadvantage to the writer--would, in later life, lose many a man his job. When an instructor runs through a pile of blue-books or a number of weekly themes, their neatness may not receive official notice, yet no matter what the content may be, orderly writing cannot fail to make a favorable impression--with...
...view against partisanship, and Brent D. Allinson '17, in a tone of exalted idealism, seeks to show a parallelism between the "bloodless revolution" of 1688 and that which seems to him involved in the victory of Mr. Wilson. One need not be convinced in order to envy the writer his power of seeing our present-day policies in such a haze of glory...
...illustrates very strikingly the purpose as well as the need of such a body as the Academy. These two men, by their achievements in different lines of endeavor are fully deserving of their new honors. Dr. Wendell, who is professor of English Literature at Harvard, is distinguished as a writer, critic and lecturer. Gari MeIchers is an American artist who is hardly known here, although he has been much honored abroad. Dr. Wendell as a lecturer at the Sobonne and other French universities, represented this country and was duly appreciated in France, although he had until yesterday received no substantial...