Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fact that O. Henry spent three years in jail and that during that time he wrote some of his most famous short stories is a striking reminder of a familiar but often neglected truth. A man cannot find himself unless he takes time to think...
...play by James Cox Savery '11 has been accepted for early production by the Empire Producing Corporation, of New York City. It is a farcical comedy in three acts, entitled "In For the Night." The author was president of the Dramatic Club in 1911 and also wrote the book and Lyrics of the Hasty Pudding production that year, which was "The Crystal Gazer...
...activities of Princeton have not been interrupted, however. The Triangle Club has announced the musical comedy which it will present in New York during the Christmas vacation. It is entitled "Safety First," the libretto being written by John Biggs 1917 and the music by F. Warburton Guilbert 1919, who wrote the songs in last season's show. The Triangle Club has been producing musical comedies annually ever since it was founded by Booth Tarkington...
With the coming of cold weather the temptation to sit by a warm fire, to hibernate, is greater than in the spring or summer. Yet, if we realize the opiate consequence of such laziness, we should bestir ourselves. As Bacon wrote, "Use fasting and full eating, but rather full eating; watching and sleep, but rather sleep; sitting and exercise, but rather exercise, and the like; so shall nature be cherished, and yet taught masteries...
...upon our living, and with love upon our dead soldiers, it might seem that the profoundest answer to all these questions has been given by another French soldier, himself no mean artist, who gave up his young life for his country last year. "If fate claims the best," he wrote to his mother, "it is not unjust. The less noble who survive will thereby be made better. . . .Nothing is lost. . . The true death would be to live in a conquered country--for me above all others, as then my art could not exist." The notion that a man of genius...