Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...else that thinks of it, can help to have lasting credit given where due. You can do what many another has done under similar circumstances and write to the Hero Fund Commission, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Commission will acknowledge your let ter, ask your references, investigate the fiery rescue and, unless it is an unusual year for heroism, your hero is likely to receive a Carnegie Medal, the only award of its kind in the U. S. made by an organization other than a club or the Government...
...Michigan is coeducational. If the choice be literature, Michigan professors will suggest reading, supervise courses. If architecture, they will bul- letin the latest advances in structure and design. If science, they will describe discoveries on demand. Alumni will be free to visit their chosen departments, quiz professors, write letters of inquiry, use the library or the laboratories. They will be perpetual students. No one will ever be graduated. Tuition fees will be voluntary, according to the wealth or generosity of the individual...
...five years, "a peevish, unmanageable little animal," she squirmed in the horror of an endless gloom. Then the wise fingers of Anne Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon her hand, brought Helen Keller along a lane to light. Years later she could read and write. Years later still, when she was an author, lecturer, philanthropist, Mark Twain could say that the two most interesting characters of the 19th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller...
...play, it has become clear that Mr. Sherwood, the author of the present production at the Wilbur, had from the motive of his story two opportunities before him. Either he might indulge himself in purely" semi-farcical satire on modern conditions or he might on the other hand write a truly great tragedy. He seems to have tried to do both, and succeeded in doing each one only by half...
Boyhood he spent in efforts to escape farm drudgery, not by loafing but through such rational adventures as peddling dinner bells and lightning rods. Grade school and high school he was encouraged to attend, but he had to teach country school and write newspaper fillers until he saved enough to begin working his way through Oberlin College. Followed three years of study in a Cleveland law office, and then, 24, he was admitted...