Word: writer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Many colleges choose to make use of their hymns as march tunes and songs of victory, but it has always been a source of satisfaction to us here, if the writer is not mistaken, that the most sacred of the old Harvard songs, revered alike for its antiquity and its associations, is sung and played only upon most solemn occasions or at moments of deepest feeling. We have a notion that by maintaining our hymn aloof from freer and coarser use, we render it cleaner and pleasanter as a remainder of the more inspiring aspects of University life...
...these men triumphed, and with this triumph persecution ceased. The innocence of error was everywhere acknowledged." This is news to many--to the Jews of Eastern Europe, who hold to the view that religious persecution is even now a real and terrible force; to the writer of an editorial on the recent Haverhill riots in this very number of the Monthly; to our philosophers, who after centuries of free discussion are still seeking the truth; to the students of history who have attributed the growth of toleration to many causes besides the rationalism of Castellio, Montaigne, and Socinus...
...carried by Mr. Taft, a Yale man, and the second, held in the fall, by Mr. Wilson, a Princeton graduate. Nor did Mr. Roosevelt's name bring unalloyed applause at meetings of graduates in 1912. Harvard students are independent in their political thinking to the point of perversity. The writer of this editorial--though not the CRIMSON board--favors the President. But it must be admitted that the Roosevelt vote was an expression of opinion and not of college loyalty...
...radicalism may assume another form, as illustrated by the magazine, "Challenge." It is destructive radicalism. In the April number, recently issued, one of the articles, "The Thinking Bayonet," declares that a revolution is necessary before national preparedness can become a reality. Adopting a socialist view, the writer, tears down and rakes over our whole economic, social, and political system, merely to leave it in that condition. The importance of universal education is stressed, and an elaborate, impossible scheme is set forth for a new system, but aside from this, no methods for improvement are suggested. The present measures...
...Arthur Brisbane, of the New York Journal, awarded the two medals given by the Association, giving the gold medal to the writer of the editorial, "Breadth and Specialization," published in the Michigan Daily, and the second prize to the writer of "Cleverness and Labor," which appeared in the Trinity Tripod...