Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Harvard comes word that the CRIMSON has acquired a new staff correspondent who will be known as the Student Vagabond. He will write a daily column in the Harvard paper concerning his academic travels. According to the CRIMSON the announcement of this new creation "has been greeted by members of the faculty as a progressive step toward the stimulation of intellectual curiosity." "The primary object," the CRIMSON continues, "of the daily contributions of the Student Vagabond will be to facilitate visiting by students to courses in which they are not regularly enrolled...
...forgotten dwellings, should be so careless of living customs. Unless vigorous measures are taken, the last theme of adventure stories will disappear, for picturesque superstition threatens to follow romantic conflict in to oblivion. When Sabatini's buccaneering mine is exhausted, romancers of the old school will have nothing to write about...
...note books are in pencil and give a brief and fragmentary account of this trip which resulted in his writing the "Heart of Darkness". The journey up the African river is a significant incident in the life of the great Polish novelist in other respects also. As the story goes, Conrad as a small boy pointed to the dark area on a map of Africa and said, "Some day I will go there." At the time he made the trip, Conrad was still a sailing captain, and had yet to write his first novel. The journey so weakened his health...
...York State Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. He told that in 1917 his society had sent out a questionnaire to 15,000 members and received responses showing that by far the greater number favored prohibition. He told that about a year ago he set out to write a pamphlet to show that prohibition was a success, but after going about making investigations changed his mind. He sent out a questionnaire to 20,000 members of the society a few months ago and found a great change in sentiment towards modification of the Volstead Act. He declared...
...conciliation board of three miners and three operators to write an agreement, and if that board deadlocks to have Charles Evans Hughes (formerly a lawyer of the miners) make a finding binding on both sides...