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...report that a certain poet and scholar of our acquaintance has made a choice which if we were engineers we should calculate in the foot-pounds of inertia overcome--that is, if we were competent at dealing with large figures. This poet and scholar has long had the fate to be efficient in university administration: he could make one pink card do what two blue cards had done before; he could chart the careers of professors and plot the curves of deans; he could embroider academic records in beautiful sampler designs, and prune, if need be, catalogues and committee reports...
...know that Italy entered the war spontaneously; that she have all she had for the success of the war; that in eleven battles, from the snow-capped mountains to the sea, she held back the Austrians for two years; and at a moment when her fate seemed desperate, won a great victory on the Piave. These achievements were based on the souls of her men, and above all on the moral strength of her people, who in two thousand years have given three civilizations to the world...
...James--"Shavings" an adaption of Joseph C. Lincoln's novel. Mr. Lincoln's "Cape Coddities" of one sort or another have delighted thousands of people, and "Shavings" is no exception to the rule. It has, furthermore, the advantage of a more skillful dramatization than has been the fate of many a successful volume. Cape Cod folk have the double advantage of being both Yankees and sea-faring, and their converse has consequently the picturesqueness of both types. Life in a small town "down on the Cape" is almost certain to develop interesting characters...
...Harvard was out kicked and out-rushed, but not ourwitted. Through three periods, the Yale players fought desperately to score a touchdown, only to find themselves weak when strength was most needed. Then the disaster came. In the opinion of the University, Captain Aldrich's team deserved a better fate. If so, Harvard is to be doubly congratulated upon victory...
...Rolland from his early visit to Rome when he fell under the inspiring influence of Malwida von Meysenbug; when Tolstoi so kindly answered the young man's letter of doubt raised by his booklet What's to be Done?, through the lonely years of his unsuccessful "tragedies of fate", including "Danton" and "St. Louis", through the year of the "heroic biographies", which gained for Rolland an interested but small following, to his final and definite victory with his ten volume novel "Jean Christophe" (1902-1912), and the disappointments...