Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although the Stadium is snow-cov-covered, graduates continue to write to the "Alumni Bulletin" about football. We hear opinion after opinion about who gets the tickets and who ought to get them, why, and why not. All this is pretty much beside the point; it is only fair to give the H. A. A. its chance to act voluntarily. Some time ago it made the following announcement: "A new committee will shortly be appointed. The H. A. A. will give its ideas to the committee, and it hopes that before another Yale game many of this year's problems...
...each manuscript must bear an assumed name, with a statement of the writer's academic standing, and must be accompanied by a sealed letter, containing his true name and superscribed with his assumed name. Every essay must be neatly and legibly written or typewritten. Essayists are at liberty to write on any one of the subjects which have been proposed in the years during which this prize has been offered, or to propose new subjects for the approval of the Council of the Dante Society...
...interesting to follow the course of testimony given by these "unprejudiced" business men, and to see what Mr. Hylan will do about it when he receives the "unbiased" report. The logical action for him would be to junk all current histories. Then he should appoint Mr. Hearst to write for the children a standard and unprejudiced history...
...have been asked to write something for the CRIMSON about the needs of the University. It would take columns to cover the subject fully, for there is hardly a department of the University today that does not wish to do a larger work than its present resources permit. Anybody who reads the annual reports of the heads of the Harvard departments is struck by the number that speak of the limitations under which they are struggling on account of lack of funds. The Endowment Fund saved the University from virtual bankruptcy and enabled it to set a scale of salaries...
...nothing so much as Hugh Walpole's "Fortitude". But the slow recognition given Rolland was perhaps the best thing for him. It allowed his genius to mature and broaden without the limitations imposed by immediate fame. It gave to him the quiet of his study where unmolested he could write his great novel, "Jean-Christophe". In the "orbus pictus of our generation", Rolland wrote an unclassifiable book. He himself said "Any work which can be circumscribed by a definition is a dead work". "Jean-Christophe", which has justly gained for Rolland his largest number of admirers, which stands...