Word: writer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...when to be young is necessarily to be decadent--or one would imagine so from recent Monthlies. The second, apart from a shabby and sentimental plot, possesses, in dialogue and description, a sense of actuality of life on the East Side of New York that is almost startling. The writer's methods are not those of contemporary English or American writers. Perhaps they are Russian; or, more likely, as Jewish as Zangwill's. But they are very successful...
...Grabau is the wife of a Columbia Professor. She is well known as a writer as well as a lecturer...
...discusses thoroughly the location and environment of Harvard. In this chapter a keen appreciation of the advantages as well as of the disadvantages of our situation near a large city are shown. Next comes the question of student expenses. "A Typical Undergraduate's Expenses" is the title and the writer goes into detail describing all sides of the subject. Lastly comes a description of the Professional and Graduate Schools and an investigation into the high cost of living. Following these chapters there is a list of financial aids and the first complete catalog of publications concerning Harvard ever compiled...
...talking to hear himself talk. Therefore, although in no way implicated myself, I feel called upon to object mildly to the polemic against insurance men as a class, which recently appeared in the CRIMSON. This ill-considered letter leads one to suspect that the difficulty is chiefly with the writer himself. Either he lacks the strength of personality to dismiss gracefully an over-attentive agent, or else he fails to appreciate the scientific basis and permanency of life insurance, which I stand ready to prove are established facts. I object to the imbecile attitude in regard to insurance...
...hope that the extravagant language of the communication referred to will be a sufficient indictment of its validity, and that it will influence its writer to excuse any good-natured tendency in the same direction on my own part...