Word: writings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul Henderson, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce came and told the President that airmail rates should be lowered, that a Caribbean airmail network was being surveyed. Before starting Caribbeanwards, President Coolidge found time to write Congress a note suggesting that $475,000 be added to the Department of Commerce appropriations for lighting U. S. airways, improving radio signal facilities...
About Mr. Jones there is an air of large, handsome magnanimity which Col. House never possessed. The House manner was too quiet not to be ulterior. If Mr. Jones wants to be another House, he conceals it beneath the air of a man who would under write the Democratic party as gladly as he would buy suits for a Boy Scout ball team...
...until eleven years later, after he had given promise of success in this profession, did Thomas Hardy write his first novel, The Poor Man and The Lady. This fell into the hands of an intelligent publisher's reader, the later famed George Meredith, who returned it promptly because it lacked plot. Desperate Remedies desperately remedied this defect, but supplanted it with many others. Under the Greenwood Tree attracted more favorable notice, and in 1874 the Cornhill Magazine published anonymously Far from the Madding Crowd. Its enormous success was in part due to the fact that many painfully unobservant readers...
They may be able, for example, to write commentaries on the Greek and Roman classics, to do important work in literary criticism, to make scientific discoveries, or to contribute to the world's literature. That they are required to lecture at all is, in many cases, an anachronism. The systematic or amphitheatre course of lectures in most subjects might with advantage be abolished and its place taken by tutorial classes, viva voc classes, or what they call in America the "Quiz...
...August a special form-letter is sent out from the office of the Dean of Harvard College to the parents and teachers of each Freshman, asking them to write confidentially about the boys in a way that will be helpful to the Dean's Office. When the replies to these letters come back, the Dean of Harvard College, the Freshman Dean and the Chairman of the Board of Freshman Advisers read them. The chairman marks the passages which will be of help to the Advisers, and these are copied and sent to each Adviser, together with the other information concerning...