Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Possibly the reason is that there is no literary talent at Harvard to be brought out; but that is hard to believe. Possibly Harvard teachers have been so occupied in teaching the average man to write moderately well and in drilling men in the facts of literary history that few of them have had time or energy to stimulate the unusual man man to do his utmost. Certain it is, in any case, that Harvard writing today needs a general intellectual atmosphere more favorable to literary production. Yale has had such an atmosphere for many years, whether because...
...your pardon, Sir, if I am forced to write the following: my economical situation is as well as that of most German students after the last war not so that I am able to write letters over German literature without any compensation. I will nothing gain from our correspondence, but I may only have a like compensation for the loss of time, which costs the writing of these letters. I hope you understand me, and I believe that you will be able to fulfil my condition without great sacrafice, because your money has a considerably greater value than ours...
...probability be the first to laugh at us for doing so. And after all, he suggests nothing to mend the situation he seems to deplore; the play starts nowhere and ends there. No, the man is an enigma, and must be enjoyed as such. Some day someone will write a volume about him, but we predict brain fever for the author...
...been said of such a book that no gentleman would write it. That may or may not be so, but no mention has been made of a gentlemen reading it. In fact, a work of this sort, if not taken co-seriously, may even have a purpose. The gentle--or ungentle--critic can be very useful at times, and the theory of anonymous revelation might very will spread farther than the capitals of nations. Indeed, some such thing would not be far amiss, in our own Yard. "Mirrors of U-4", for example, written, by some unknown undergraduate hopelessly enmeshed...
...Boston district, and seats will be reserved for the holders of these tickets until ten minutes berore the opening of the meeting, when the doors will be opened to the public. The committee asks any persons who contributed to the radium fund and have not received tickets to write Professor Percy W. Bridgman, 10 Buckingham Place, Cambridge 38, enclosing a stamped envelope...