Word: left
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...amiss to repeat it for the benefit of those who have entered since the war. Instead of forcing the student, while his opinions are yet unformed, to choose some arbitrary course of study, instead of surrounding him with rules and restrictions, his program of work is left to his own taste and initiative. Certain guiding principles must be complied with. Advice and suggestions are fully given; his proposed plan for study must be duly approved. It has always been considered, however, that he is old enough to choose for himself and that the best results could be obtained...
...LaFarge writes "To Frederic Schenck". The value of the poem is in the feeling it expresses toward its subject; a value marred only by the frequent lapses in word or phrase from the exalted to the mediocre. Possibly a simpler form might have left the evident sincerity of the work freer to be felt, but as it stands we may be grateful for the poem. The same difficulty with external form bothers the author of "Ghosts", and the reader is jolted out of whatever enjoyment he might derive from this treatment of an old theme. "The Gallows Thing...
...Details Left to Tribunals...
Long as the treaty is, it deals with numerous questions only in outline. It could never have been completed in so short a time had not detailed determination of many matters been left to technical commissions and tribunals established to give impartial decisions after hearing and investigation...
...most part to a comparatively small number of large individual subscriptions. Of small subscriptions such as the bulk of the members of each class are able to make, there have been shamefully few. The canvassers can still make up this deficiency. There are two full days left in which the many men who have so far "passed by on the other side" may make Harvard's Loan victory a victory of the whole College...