Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...League of Nations is the greatest constructive proposal made in centuries. Nevertheless, it is being opposed with such vigor by some of our Senators, that, in order to support the league, it is necessary to show that certain objections thought extremely serious by them are not well founded...
...covered" parody last Wednesday seemed to herald the possibility of a Renaissance, of a literary magazine that might carry on the traditions which the Monthly fostered to even greater heights. The next day the real Harvard Magazine came out. Can I face the more mature judgments of certain members of our English Department and confess to a decided feeling of disappointment on perusing the pages of the new periodical? With the exception of Miss Barbey's sketch, a charming "bit", creating the mood of a dead past much as Hergesheimer does in "Java Head", I failed to find anything...
...alternative, then, is to employ certain specialists at certain times or to maintain a staff of coaches the year round whose dominant characteristic is their mediocrity. Mediocrity is implied if only for the reason that the cost of maintaining permanently a group of men such as Haughton, Tad Jones, et al, would be altogether prohibitive--assuming they could be induced to devote all their time to athletics at any price...
...seems pitiable that in a University such as Harvard, a new publication of evident literary merit cannot be brought to light without a most unfair attack being made upon it by certain narrow minded editors of the established literary organ. History teaches that when satire is used, decay has set in. Surely dishonest competition, anonymously conducted, discloses a moribund state of affairs. How can a small group of men who have failed in keeping alive Harvard's undergraduate literary traditions presume to sneer out of existence a publication of real literary promise? It is merely another attempt by the "vested...
...Although certain Harvard men are making the appearance of a new magazine the occasion for a little merriment, the affair may not forever have a humorous tinge. If the real publication has applied for a copyright it will not do for other persons to usurp its name and announce that they, too, have obtained a copyright, with all rights reserved. Ordinarily the Government has something to say about proceedings of this kind. Boston Transcript...