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...struggle being waged across the ocean. They see old civilizations crumble, ideals in which they trusted vanish. In the work of restoration this nation will have a great part. College students in particular are beginning to realize that the responsibility will rest upon their generation, and that the task of reconstruction must enlist the knowledge and experience of educated...
...provocative individualism, is hardly that. If any Englishman is wanted for the post, Canon Rashdall is probably the man with experience as an educator who is best fitted for it. But greatness in such a place is largely a matter of personality, and the Harvard authorities have no small task on their hands in finding men who shall make philosophy a living interest in this America of ours which so greatly needs it. Springfield Republican...
...which he gave his life. In order that none of the inspiration to be derived from a life well and fully lived, cut short by death in the undertaking of new and constructive work, may be lost, it seems well that his Alma Mater should know something of the task he was undertaking, and of which he would have been the last to have spoken...
...much credit cannot be given to the editors for their sound execution of the important and stupendous task of issuing such a book. To W. B. Southworth '18 particularly belongs the praise for unselfish and unceasing labor...
...play ought to be amusing, since Harry Leon Wilson, none other, wrote it. But "Ruggles of Red Gap," also the work of this same man, fell flat, although it had possibilities, and this due to the poor dramatization. Lee Wilson Dodd, however, in the present case, has done his task well, for there is as much dramatic consistency shown as is necessary and thorough sagacity in the arrangement of the dialogue. One rule which has been wisely followed is that of moderation and restraint, and the result is that the taste of caricature and burlesque of some twentieth century humans...