Word: writers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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George Alexander Gibson, delegate from the University of Edinburgh; physician and professor of medicine; a clear and prolific writer; investigator of the action of the heart; distinguished teacher in a school long famous, where founders of our own medical school were trained more than a hundred years...
...last play, "Five in the Morning," by H. Hagedorn '07, is a tragedy of modern life in blank verse. the scene is laid in New York on East Twelfth street, and the characters include cheap clerks in the down-town department stores and a hack writer...
Still more noticeable is this infirmity of thought in the article by F. S. entitled, "The Rich Man's Burden." With a stimulating subject in his hands--the chance of more and more inducing the foremost young men of the country to become teachers--the writer lapses into incoherence, leaving with the reader but one definite impression, that the profession of teaching "should be recruited from the rich...
...promise. The conclusion, however, even while having a good conceit, is sustained only by a rather obvious invoking of the Deity. The remaining two contributions are in the nature of vers de societe, and verse of this sort except when exquisitely done always means so much more to the writer than to the reader that criticism is unprofitable...
...morning a communication urging the preparation every year of a Freshman photograph album, so that the members of the class might learn to know each other earlier in their College course. Although we are not particularly in favor of this artificial mode of making acquaintances, we realize with the writer the necessity of strengthening the unity of the various Freshman classes. As conditions are at present, it is not until the end of his Senior year that the average undergraduate really feels that he knows the men of his class, and anything which could bring this about in the Freshman...