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Biography is a form of literature which requires sympathy, good judgment, impartiality, and tact. The last-named is particularly necessary when the subject of the biography is still living; biographers throughout history have caused pain, done injustice, and made fools of themselves through too much haste in publishing their work, or too little taste in the writing of it. Mr. Tumulty's recent publication, while not strictly a biography, must be placed in that class as it attempts to portray the character of ex-President Wilson through the narration of various events in his career. It is unfortunate that...
...Passos had any of the malignant designs imputed to him, his wrecked figures would have been of a more heroic stature. But he is no progandist, no muck-raker. It is a pity that he cannot yet receive the judgment by standards of literary criticism to which he is entitled, instead of the hasty appraisals of conventional opinion. HAROLD A. LARRABEE, '16, 1G. October...
...Diploma, awarded each year to the member of the graduating class who in the judgment of the Faculty has given evidence of the greatest promise by his scholarship, conduct and character, goes to Richard Cary Curtis '16, of Boston. Mr. Curtis, who led the class which graduated from the School last spring, is now practicing law with the Boston firm of Choate, Hall, and Stewart...
...cure of cancer. In the event that thereafter the opinion of the President and Fellows of said College such investigation shall have been satisfactorily concluded. I authorize the President and Fellows of said College to devote such income to such other medical investigation or research as in their judgment will most largely benefit the physical wellbeing of mankind...
Dean Laycock of Dartmouth has announced with a touch of pride that hereafter seniors at the college will be treated as "absolutely free men". He purposes "to recognize that a senior has presumably reached years of discretion and has learned to use careful judgment". He agrees to accede to the request of every senior who considers that he has a reasonable right to expect his petition to be granted...