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...think there is some truth in the writer's conclusion that "Holyoke House must ever stand endeared in the hearts of those who have known it, as a symbol rather than a college dormitory". It is undoubtedly a better symbol than dormitory. STUART HUCKINS 1G. October...
...place. And the moderate. rent which these rooms command, more than pays for their many appointments. Whether or not, the editor who wrote this article was disappointed in securing rooms there, Holyoke House must ever stand endeared in the hearts of those who have known it, as a symbol rather than a college dormitory, and is unworthy of the mild criticism directed against it. WOLCOTT COTT TREAT '23, October 14th...
...first place, he has in his possession a convenient symbol for a certain work done, a certain experience achieved. "The Harvard man," "the Yale man," "the Princeton man," the university man of any kind, by the mere fact that he can call himself so, sums up whatever these institutions stand for. He does this not by his own qualities or acquirements, but in virtue of bearing a recognized stamp. He is minted gold, to be known at a glance, rather than the ingot in the lump...
Since the war, the steady trend toward nationalism throughout the British Empire has resulted in at least two definite achievements. Three weeks ago South Africa voted on the question of absolute secession from the Empire Now Canada nullifies the last symbol of the Empire's existence in the Dominion by winning the privelege of naming her own Governor-General...
...admirable review of Masefield's "Enslaved," it is "piercing, clear poetry." F. W. MacVeagh's "Poem" is a brilliant bit of repression, phrased with that quiet, haunting conciseness which E. A. Robinson has celebrated. Mr. McLane's "Anniversary" is tender dedication to Fadeless Love and Beauty. In "A Symbol" Mr. La Farge sails the old glamorous seas to Xanader, quite as his swashbuckling Pirate does in "Santa Spirita Harbor." Merle Colby magically weaves the burthen and repetand of "Days Falling," or in "The Singer" takes up the old ballad cry of the Poet and the Passerby with deft and unprovocative...