Word: writes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...long been a ground for unfavorable comparison of American with English universities. It has also been a cause of general complaint against college men. The person who has not a university training almost invariably judges the man who has by his ability to express himself, orally and in writing. It is surprising to many business men how few recent college graduates can write even clear and cogent business letters. The work of Mr. Hersey in the Business School has shown that even men who have added to their undergraduate work two years of professional training,--who may, if they wish...
...save him from the use of such phrases as "The nearby town." Not to be exclusively literary the editors have printed "The Significance of the Struggle in the Balkans" by Mr. Burrow, who pleads for a dictator as the one great hope of the Allies, and who appears to write because he has something...
...Rogers '18 goes so far indeed as to write a hectic letter to the editor, "War--and the Millenium," in which he asserts that "War is the raging drink of life and death, or hell and heaven, pressed by the hand of a God of Battles into a full cup." He also confides to the editor, "I am an ancient cave-man in my inmost soul. My heart is hot to drink the cup of wrath, to press the rue from the drunken bowl." But President Wilson in his message says that "If our citizens are ever to fight effectively...
...Your article on 'Low-Brown' in a recent Bulletin has my attention, and I want to write and say that I agree entirely with the CRIMSON. Since College days I have seen much of the undergraduates both in a financial and social way, and I feel that their conversation is painfully deficient. 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 others would be amazed. It seems to me a vast improvement should be make...
...suggestion that the proof of every number be read by somebody who can spell. I write this in fear, knowing what the CRIMSON...