Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wonder how long it will take people to realize that no man has ever tried to give the public 'something better' and has succeeded. Real classics are written more or less by accident. No author has ever decided to write a classic, and succeeded in producing one. Shakspere wrote for a living. He took old plots, and fitted them for the members of his company. That is one reason why his characters are so realistic; he drew from life. His works were full of genius not because he tried to make them so but because he could not help...
...never could have happened in the blood-and-iron days of old--the 'News' prints in its colyum a ballade on that very matter (obstreperous Freshmen). And a ballade is a form of verse which persons who are entirely dead to the world of the mind simply cannot write...
...write to you about some phase of politics or government which would be of interest to the college man. I suppose what really interests such a man most in matters of government is what can be done to improve things, and particularly what he can do. This is as it should be. Perhaps it would interest some of your readers if we should discuss informally one aspect of the situation that has always impressed...
...that meets in upper Massachusetts. I fall to get assignments and notices because at times it is impos- sible to distinguish between the board and the chalk. On occasions I have seen instructors give up illustrating on the board, realizing the futility of their attempts to make the chalk write. Does such a state of affairs deserve comment? J. VINCENT SPADEA '23 March...
...acquainted with the methods used in organized scouting; but we feel that as a means of over-systematizing the game, it should be done away with. Why "suspicion and misunderstandings" would follow its abolition, is not altogether clear. Graduates now write to the coach about games that they see, which is only to be expected when the game it no important...