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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...regards today's communication, the writer's statement that the "Union is a failure" and a "dying institution" is too preposterous for argument. The Union is of inestimable service to the University. It furnishes meeting places for numerous class, organization, and University gatherings; it provides lectures of great interest and profit, and furnishes club accommodations for sixteen hundred men. It is, unfortunately, in the anomalous position of serving the entire University, and yet being supported as a private club. The CRIMSON will gladly print sane expressions of opinion on the question of compulsory membership,--but no more such childish...
...subject for debate that the fullest and most skillful orchestral support is none too good for an amateur performance. Economy practiced at the expense of the orchestra is not wisdom. Second: a lack of singers. This Pi Eta production is the first within the memory of the writer that has not presented some unusually spirited undergraduate singing. With a few exceptions, the chorus was scarcely above the average and the principals, too, offered nothing that might be termed distinguished singing. Neither of these defects is insurmountable; the first may be remedied by a small expenditure of money, the second...
Awkward and only ordinary English may be an obstacle to true enjoyment of the Illustrated until that magazine sees the egregious folly of publishing material because of the fame of the writer--not fame as a writer, but fame as an athlete or something else as diametrically opposed to skill with the quill. If the journalistic tendencies of the Illustrated prompt the display of well-known names, then let men who can write well interview the well-known names, but do not force the well-known names to do themselves an injustice by sand-bagging the President's English...
...other hand, both prose and verse in this number are unusual and good. Perhaps the best thing in the issue is Mr. McCombs' review of one of those militaristic books which flood the shelves just now. In the form of a book-notice and in remarkably few words, the writer constructs a very neat case against the war maniacs. There is a certain cold charm in the temperance and lucidity of his style--a charm which we encounter frequently in the best work of the so-called "Pacifist" school, and which is in happy contrast...
...philological teaching of the classics is subjected to an arraignment by a writer in The New Republic. He proposes as "the classical compromise" the frank acknowledgment that the scientific and other interests of most men today preclude their spending the time to "master" the classics in the old way of English education, and he suggests the substitution of good English translations. He adduces the fact that most reading in the classics is done by means of miserable literal translations. Why not substitute the best ones and encourage the reading of them by students...