Word: writer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...public, or a portion of it, finds it hard to rid itself of an idea once firmly imbedded. In spite of a rain of facts to the contrary, some persons still believe that our endowed universities are out of the reach of any but men of wealth. The writer of a letter to the Transcript, and the author of a tirade against the University, called "The Educational Octopus," makes the accusation that the "intellectuals of Harvard mistakenly believe that the son of the laboring man should not be allowed to aspire to equality, professionally or otherwise, with the young...
Perhaps the argument was too locally applied. A correspondent of the Nation wishes to extend the conclusion "to cover the question what American men in general talk about." This writer complains that at gatherings of college men he is entertained only with "lectures by Walter This or Big Bill That" on football, and is told that that is the only interest college men have in common. A business man avers that among undergraduates "the range of subjects usually is from athletics to girls, and if one of them should happen to talk on American or English politics the other would...
...Hapgood's career divides itself into three phases; first, his work as a journalist; then, as an author and writer of books; and, finally, his great activity as a reformer and modern feminist...
...vigorous, unpolished essay by Mr. Denison on "Samual Butler and the Way of All Flesh." It is full of interesting matter, of which a greatest art will be new to most readers. The second literary essay, Mr. Littell's "Imagines and Gargoyles," seems the work of a writer who has not grown up no his vocabulary, but who has things to say and may discipline himself into saying them well. Of the two stories, Mr. Dos Passos's "Pot of Tulips" contains skilful description and an inimitable heroin. Mr. Whittlesey's "Best Laid Schemes" is lively, humorous, and endowed with...
...source of legitimate satisfaction to Harvard men," concludes the writer whose nom de plume is 1898, "that its graduates should have taken so prompt and prominent a part in this patriotic movement." It would be well for students now in college to scan the record of those New York graduates who were the pioneers of Plattsburg...