Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think. They have leisure enough to travel a bit and to read a little in fields quite outside their own particular course of study. Harvard was like that once. Emerson did little reading for his classes, but much for himself; and Roosevelt, too, found time to reflect and write. The Harvard College of today is far different. Men no longer have time to linger over meals, to exchange ideas, and so to broaden their intellectual horizons. The passing of Memorial Hall more than any other single event showed doubters that the old Harvard with its easy cultural life is dead...
...legislature to reverse itself after ratifying or rejecting a proposed amendment to the Constitution. The period in which ratification may take place is unlimited (unless, as in the 18th Amendment, there is a clause setting a time limit-in that case, seven years). An attempt was made to write a time limit, three or five years, into the Child Labor Amendment, but without success...
...thought, when I ordered this periodical, that I was obtaining something away from this rotten propaganda that is swamping the mails, but I notice a cut of Rockefeller, and a sweet eulogy of this saint that would make a dog sick (in your last issue). If I were to write what I think about that sweeted-scented bunch of Standard Oil mob, I would do time for mailing profanity through the U. S. Mails...
...editorial competition will last 11 weeks and is open only to Juniors. In this competition the men's work will be only to write editorials. No previous experience is necessary. This will be the last CRIMSON competition open to the class...
Good English is business English, according to Dean Garner of the Northeastern business school in Chicago. And business English is short and "Kicky". At last the lie is passed to Shakespeare, Browne, and Johnson, and all the other foreigners who talked over the businessman's head: they didn't write good English. The son of the Rotarian may henceforth plead scot-free of Milton: he didn't write good English...