Word: written
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps the poems and stories that make up the first number of the Advocate have been slumbering since last winter in the editor's drawer. Perhaps the authors have purposely repressed their personal feelings and opinions and aspirations and have written in a detached spirit of "Art for Art's Sake". Yet one is tempted to assume that these are the latest products of the writers pens, and to seek in them evidences of the thoughts and activities and experiences of a busy summer holiday. What have the editors seen, what have they learned, what have they felt, since their...
...uninteresting number, nor badly written--far from it. The poets have ease and imagination, and are by no means lacking in musical sense; the story-writers are fluent and entertaining; the editorials, deploring Harvard architecture and commending smokers, glass flowers and the Scholarship Service Bureau, are admirably expressed and sound beyond cavil. But barring that final sonnet, none of it, to drop into the vernacular, "proves anything." To Mr. E. C. MacVeagh '18 we owe our thanks for demonstrating that it is not impossible for an undergraduate to write good verse and still to remain aware of the big things...
...case of the Bowdoin Prizes, only are they competed for in anything like adequate numbers. Last year sixty-seven men submitted essays for these. Yet even this number is misleading, for all who composed dissertations were not in the truest sense competitors. Too many handed in theses written for courses, after little or no revision, on the hope that they might "draw something." And the other competitions suffer considerably from a lack of interest...
...anyone who has watched carefully the practical working out of the elective system must have been similarly impressed, and here in our own university such prominent thinkers on educational topics as Dean Briggs (in his "College Life") and Professor Muensterberg (in his excellent essay, "School Reform," and elsewhere) have written against allowing education to proceed "along the lines of least resistance...
...late Norwood Penrose Hallowell and the income to be awarded at mid-years to a member of the Freshman class, who shall hold the scholarship until his graduation. At the same meeting a gift to the Library was announced from J. Randolph Coolidge L. '54, of a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in the year 1819 relative to the diet for undergraduates. The text of this letter is as follows...