Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is none like Dreiser--a Gulliver among literary Lilliputians! they bellow. Everyone must take a week's vacation and read "An American Tragedy"; nothing short of a colossal achievement. Simultaneously other critics of an equal eminence rise in anger from their wrath on the labored, Teutonic, Kolossal opus. Written over a period over ten years, this novel, hurriedly completed in a few months, scarcely re-touched, and condensed not at all, has been published in a rough, raw, dull, and barbaric fulsomeness. Let us regurgitate, they howl in chorus, Dreiser and all his works once and forever. He knows...
...Book of Harvard" which was written soon after the uprising is an account in biblical language of the disorders in the College in September, 1776, consequent on the stewards' persisting in serving bad butter in the commons. A contributory cause of the disorders is also to be found in the fact that the faculty had lately refused to accept certain customary and time-honored, but very elastic, excuses for absence from college exercises. The "Book of Harvard" and "Arguments for the Defence" gives the students' side of the question while the faculty prepared a long list of "Representations" to explain...
...Following is the first of a series of four articles written especially for the Crimson by Mr. Francis Deak a special student at the Law School. Mr. Deak is vice-president of the Confederation International des Etudiants and is still actively engaged in this work. In the succeeding articles he will describe the organization and activities of the Student Federation...
During the last ten years Mr. Hillyer has written several notable poetical works. In 1917 he published "Sonnets and other Lyrics", which was the first book of original verse published by the Harvard University Press. "The Five Books of Youth," and "Alchemy--A Symphonic Poem", were finished in 1920, and three years later his two volumes "The Hills Give Promise", and "The Coming Forth by Day", were published. Mr. Hillyer's last work was completed last year and entitled "The Halt in the Garden...
...like Albert Bushnell Hart, who relate it to the events of today and tomorrow, are too rare. Prof Hart's position as a dean of his profession has been recognized ever since he completed his editorship of the greatest co-operative history of the United States yet written, the American Nation Series. His own list of historical works is creditable. But it is the arena where history is in the making that has most attracted him. It it noteworthy that most of his titles deal with contemporary problems and forces...