Word: writing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...boss said I should write it a letter to you for him on account he is busy in a pinochle tournament. Anyhow he says he don't know nothing about football this year, neither does nobody else...
...novelist began by emphatically vetoing the prevalent idea that the traditional advice of literary men to ambitious writers is to avoid such a career. "If you wish to write, do so," he said. "If you fail you will soon find out, and in all events you will enjoy yourself...
...something in their mind's eye besides the examination paper. Let the college examine if it will, but on a saner basis. Instead of finding out whether or not a man has read so many books of Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil, let them discover if he can read and write Latin intelligently. From the individual's point of view, his ability to talk French well is certainly more inducive to the continued study of French literature and thought than the knack of setting down verbatim the translation of four or five prescribed books...
...When the theorists mix in, they usually make a mess of it." This sentence is drawn from a booklet on "College-Made Utopias and Labor Unrest," which Dorr A. Felt, president of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association, has been impelled to write...
What Mr. Laski meant to say was undoubtedly that all labor has the right to organize as it will; and having spent the time and labor necessary to write a very dry and scholarly book completely setting forth this view, it must be rather discouraging to find himself so completely reversed. Whether Mr. Laski is right or not is open to discussion; but let us at least grant him the privilege of being "different." HAROLD M. FLEMING...