Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature. The difficulty that I should fancy the reviewer feels is the difficulty of sustaining any standard. Where there is no style a standard must be impossible. The poor reviewers are apparently reduced to be reporters of the police-court of literature, the chroniclers of the habitual criminals of art. It is sometimes said of them that they do not read all through the works they are called upon to criticise. They do not. Or at least they should not. If they...
...best male choruses in America. Now comes an invitation from the French Government to visit France and give several concerts there, with a further bait added to this honor in the statement that some of the leading French composers, Satie, Ravel and Auric, have signified their willingness to write special compositions for the Harvard singers...
...successful candidates will be elected to the news board, and will become eligible for the position of managing editor and president. Editors will also be allowed to write dramatic and literary reviews. Editors assigned to a sport will accompany the various teams on trips and will receive special reimbursement in addition to having their expenses paid...
Members of both the Sophomore and Freshman classes are eligible to enter the competition, which will last not more than twelve weeks. The successful candidates will become news editors, and eligible to compete for the managing editorship and presidency. News editors will also be allowed to write play reviews, and the editor assigned to cover a sport will accompany the team on its trips; the crew editor, for example, will be sent to Red Top with the crew this spring...
...intention to write regarding some of the irregularities that exist in the basketball game in various parts of the country and also regarding the ways the conduct of the game could be improved because I believe that with the proper rules and regulations basketball can be made one of the most healthful and interesting of our indoor pastimes...