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...your bit to help things along. 1920 CLASS DAY COMMITTEE...
...five sonnets, Mr. Hull's "To a Cat" and the sestet of Mr. Cabot's "Late Spring" stand out as something more than a succession of words arranged with varying skill in a predetermined pattern. Mr. Morrison's "Song" contains two or three significant lines and flows along sonorously. In "Lines," Mr. Behn has conveyed a single impression through the medium of a successfully irregular verse pattern. The poem is a little too long for its purpose and contains too much exotic detail. The misspelled pomegranate might well be replaced by a homelier and more familiar apple. In general...
When the distance men had their work out yesterday afternoon, H. Jacques '11, captain of the 1911 team, showed the men the correct form of running, putting on his track suit and running with the men along the river road. Besides Jacques, A. Lyman '16 watched the shot-putters and hammer throwers. Jacques expects to come out to coach frequently, while Lyman will try to be at the field again this season...
Turn the average youth loose in a room with a copy of "Snappy Stories" along with a few volumes by Washington Irving, Dumas, Dickens, Hardy, Maupassant, and ten to one he will take "Snappy Stories," not so much because he has never learned the difference but because it is the way of the times; he has been bred up to it by his environment. Yet after he has finished this kind of reading he has nothing to show for his time or reading and concentration, his mind merely becomes a sieve, a funnel where everything is poured in and passed...
...turn from "the anarchistic ideal of unchecked self-expression to the practice of the disciplines which humanize the individual and make him socially and righteously efficient." To the aid of a "positive and ethical humanism" is to be brought a "positive and critical religion," for "humanism cannot get along without religion, because, as Burke pointed out, the whole ethical life of man has its root in humility...