Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first duty of a college is to provide professors who can teach. To do nothing but teach is not, however, the ambition of a great number of college professor,-and rightly so; for a man who by years of training, is qualified to write or to compose music should be able to devote himself to create something of his own. But primarily he must teach. If the colleges have gained wide reputation as the sources of contributions to the arts, it is only because their professors have managed to find time to devote themselves to such things...
...Madam" is again demonstrated the truth of the theory that one need have no great system of propaganda in mind before setting out to write a novel, theory which has seemingly fallen into disrepute among the majority of the better present-day writers of this country. "Purpose, purpose. purpose" is engraved in large type across the pages of almost all the novels of note which have appeared since the beginning of the war. To be sure there have been may thousands of books published abroad as well as in this country which had not purpose, but most of them, unfortunately...
...thinking; thinking comes by the training of the mind; and the training of the mind is the university's specialty. True, there are men of great readiness in ideas who have never had the benefit of this specialty; but I am inclined to think that as a rule they write themselves out more quickly. A few years ago I had the pleasure of conducting over Harvard a well known English author who, to my astonishment, told me that it was the first university of which he had ever been inside the walls. He was then in the heyday of prominence...
...writing mind with the surest and steadiest quality is, I venture to believe, that which ripens slowly in the wind and air and sunshine which naturally comes its way. It does not admit impatiences, or rebellion to discipline, or too fierce a love for the purple patches of life and nothing else. To write well, to write abundantly, to write long, so that having embarked on profession we do not have to face the prospect of being stranded high and dry in it, we need "school." Of "school" the American temperament is of all temperaments the most defiant...
Today is the last day for the submission of words and music for the 1924 class song. The song selected will be sung by the class at the Jubilee, May 30. Any freshman who can write a melody, harmonized or otherwise, with or without words, is requested to hand it in today. Compositions must be handed in to S. N. Brown '24, at James Smith B 14, or to M. A. Shattuck 3L at James Smith...