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...Making a living is the test of a man's right to live; and when the family pursestring is withdrawn, it becomes a cruelly hard test to pass. When ambulance service, aviation, and military camps occupy one's thought, there is little time to consider so routine a subject as work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GETTING A JOB. | 3/29/1916 | See Source »

...amount it brings in, but as something of itself interesting. If, in the fields of industry and profession, this outlook is needed to make life really worth while, how much greater is the need in the fields of art? All that music, that literature, painting or sculpture live for is the individual contribution to the beauty or significance of the world, which springs from enthusiasm and conviction. To perform this contribution, the artist must not be thinking of how it will be received. That is the death-knell of inspiration...

Author: By R. M. Jopling and Secretary HARVARD Musical review., S | Title: UNIVERSITY MUSIC VALUED | 3/23/1916 | See Source »

...live outside the dormitories, but wish to sing, may be assigned to one of the three clubs by consulting Dr. Davison. Since attendance percentage will be based upon the total number of men in the various dormitories, all members should be as regular as possible in attendance, in order to swell their dormitory's total, and so help in securing the prize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN SINGERS WILL ORGANIZE THIS EVENING | 3/15/1916 | See Source »

...this case "shot" means "beheaded." Only on one condition may his life be spared,--namely, if the Lady Margaret Silchester consents to be his wife. She, dean thing, consents out of pity, only to be refused by the haughty Godred, who swears that he would rather die than live without "love, love, love...

Author: By W. H. M. ., | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 3/7/1916 | See Source »

...collected of the number of men taking part in athletics in the universities of these two countries a year ago, and it was found that, in proportion to the size, the University of Toronto led. This is explained by the fact that in Canada every child is trained to live outdoors in winter, and so it naturally follows that when grown up he continues to take part in winter sports. He has become a proficient skater, or snowshoer, or ski-runner, and when he goes to college he enters into these sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER SPORTS GAINING IN AMERICAN COLLEGES | 3/6/1916 | See Source »