Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Eliot once said "is the man who knows how to use his own language well." And last year, incorporating the spirit of this remark in its report, the Faculty Committee on methods of sifting candidates for admission to the University recommended "the exclusion of candidates who cannot write acceptable English, with the understanding that this rule shall not apply to those for whom English is a foreign tongue." Certainly if this recommendation is adopted there will be no cause in the future, whatever may be the situation at present, for any disciplinary English...
...Hasty Pudding Theatricals announced last night that Joe de Ganahl '25 and William A. White Jr. '24 will write the 1924 Pudding Show...
...persons afflicted with the malady are perfectly normal, except "for a desire to write endless rows of ciphers and engage in computations more involved than the most difficult problems in logarithms...
...distance out on the stormy Atlantic hovers romance in plenty; unsolved tragedies, unidentified bodies washed ashore, feminine accomplices and love interest, sudden fierce skirmishes on the high seas, in fact all the sundry trappings of blood-and-thunder yarns. All that lacks is a Stevenson or a Conrad to write the modern romance...
...stayed in my garden while rain was falling and a terrific wind blowing. When members of my household urged me to take shelter from the elements, I replied: 'I must hear the sound of the waves, the whistle of the wind and the fall of the raindrops. To write one must be next to nature!' Next day found me in bed with a severe attack of tonsilitis. Said the Daily News, New York newspaper: 'What our poets need most is not to get next to nature, but to get next to themselves. As for d'Annunzio...