Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hand. In the days of ancient Greece a youth with such a dream would have consulted the Delphio oracle to learn the meaning of the strange, portentous words the scroll contained. Today the Freshman needs no seer or prophet. The scroll is blank, for he himself shall write the words that give it meaning. That vague desire for greatness which seems to whisper of some latent genius; is as yet an unharnessed, a random, undirected urge. The great problem of every young man is to find himself, and college is the most likely place to make the discovery...
...happened that recently when he set out to write his 63rd play, he decided to hark back to his youthful scene and write a play about political life in Washington, the leading character of which is a Senator. Perhaps it was to realize a youthful ambition that he himself decided to go back on the stage to play the part of the Senator...
...splurge continued: "Early in the spring of this year Glenn Frank signed a contract with us agreeing to write a daily editorial for news- papers, beginning in the fall. We instructed a news-clipping bureau to send us all press notices. . . . and were inundated with clippings, from full-page feature pages to two-inch news-items-ELEVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-FOUR up to date and more still coming." Appended was a list of the newspapers which had already subscribed for the daily editorial together with statement-made in strict accordance with the U. S. mode of measuring...
...Albert Edward Wiggam in his famed book, The New Decalogue of Science: "Glenn Frank's career, in my judgment, will be one of the world events of the coming generation. His genius, scholarship, poise and insight represent the new type of statesman, of whom I have endeavored to write...
...cats as prerequisite to that of man, the use of chloroform in capital punishment, etc. He wrote What Young People Should Know, The Brain of the Sheep, and many other books and papers, chiefly on the brain. In 1910 he became emeritus at Cornell, but continued to lecture and write. He wrote the words and music of Fiat Justitia, an international hymn for the first Universal Races Congress. He set Old Ironsides (by Oliver Wendell Holmes) and The Peacemaker (by Joyce Kilmer) to music. Before he died he set to work upon a history of the 55th Mass. Infantry...