Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...columns the whole university, instructors as well as students, Radcliffe as well as Harvard, and to discuss other than purely academic interests. Therefore, it is seven times welcome, and if in so new an essay it makes mistakes--as it surely will--seventy times seven to be forgiven. Its editors can well afford to laugh (and incidentally watch their pockets bulge) at pre-adolescent lucubrations in red and yellow. (How pat for anonymity that choice of colors...
...Trespass," two miners, shut up in a cave, are dying of exhaustion. Mike comforts himself by constant prayer; Pete blasphemes. In time Mike's assurance that he dies in peace because the sins of the penitent are forgiven by God and by all Christian men gives Pete new hope; Pete confesses that the has sinned with Mike's wife, proclaims his repentance, and demands pardon. Mike, facing death, forgives him; but hearing the picks of the rescuing party and seeing release, strangles him. The play has strength. Mr. Silverman and Mr. Walker acted it with earnestness and dignity, but without...