Word: drawers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Students possess a wealth of personal effects, many of which have long been discarded. Every man has a shelf or drawer full of things which he no longer uses. Old clothing accumulates rapidly. It is psychologically natural, however, for men to part slowly with possessions once acquired, and to declare they have nothing to give, upon being questioned by a collector. There seems to be nothing more difficult than the emptying of an overcrowded drawer into the waiting hands of charity...
...aware that there is a war going on; some of his colleagues are still in the '90's. Mr. Davis signs a story which looks as if it had been written for a Christmas number some 25 years ago, found lacking in seasonable cheer, and consigned to the bottom drawer, whence it had suddenly and mysteriously risen. It describes the struggles of a brave little woman, and ends, "Then quietly, she walked out into the night." One is consoled by the knowledge that she couldn't possibly walk out anywhere into the night without running into bevies of distressed females...
From internal evidence, one might judge that the new board of editors of the Advocate had as yet had indifferent success in drawing contributions from candidates, had found comparatively little to say themselves, and had been forced to scrape the bottom of the drawer in the hope of finding something left behind by the Senior editors. Of the articles signed by names that have not appeared on the board, the best is the thoughtful "Prepared--for What?" Of Mr. E. A. LeRoy, Jr. If he is somewhat given to accepting as fact all that he reads in the newspapers...
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...
...such an overwhelming issue in Cambridge? The defence of "The Playboy" by one who signs himself "Van N," is intelligent and spirited, but scarcely contemporary. The reviews, as routine, may be allowed to pass. "The Scottish Players" is thin anecdote, defensible if the manuscripts in the upper right-hand drawer are few. Alone of all this, the parody of Synge by Mr. McVeagh has excuse for its ink. As this...