Word: writings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...short the Union has become a place not supported by a feeling of sentimental loyalty, but self-supporting because of its usefulness--a place to study, to read, to write or to play. For all time the Union has come to stay...
...examination for the prize will be held in University 23 next Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Each candidate will be called upon to write, in the examination room, an essay upon some subject in economics and political science, to be chosen by himself from a list not previously announced. Any student in the University who will be next year a member of the Senior class or of the Graduate School is eligible. The scholarship yields an income of $350 and the incumbent must devote the major portion of his time to economic and political studies...
Candidates may, however, with the consent of the Committee write on other classical subjects...
...words of "Bright College Years" and Cornell's "Alma Mater," being applicable to no particular occasion, are applicable to any. It seems that some one could be found, who would re-write the first four lines of "Fair Harvard," giving us in their place lines that could be sung appropriately on all occasions; as it is, only for the Stadium exercises on Class Day, and for Commencement are the present words fitting. If Harvard men, graduates as well as undergraduates, would interest themselves, someone would produce words appropriate not only for these occasions, but for all others as well...
...Iliad was written by one man--Homer. Even if the poet had a name, we know nothing of him. It seems more probable that he was an imaginary ancestor, invented to receive the worship of his admirers. It is at any rate assured that the incomparable poet did not write the whole Iliad, but that it was a work of successive ages, and probably, at the end of a long period of gradual development, fell into the hands of some great poet. Although criticism may reveal a hundred joints in the construction of the Iliad, it rarely can disclose faults...