Word: abandons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This is Mr. Bailey's first connected story, and the attempt to abandon his sketchy manner is not successful...
...students is a thoroughly bad one. The result of making a good elective conflict with others is, that the student is forced to relinquish some valuable course, and take one that he does not care to; the result of placing good electives in bad hours is to make students abandon these inconvenient ones, and take up with others because they come at better hours...
...interpreting it the chief defect of Thomas's orchestra was revealed. This glowing, passionate composition loses much in effectiveness by being played in such a measured and nicely calculated concert style. The whole opera is like one wild tumultuous torrent of ungovernable passion, and must be played a l' abandon, and with an unconscious enthusiasm and fervor, as if the musicians were blindly carried along by this torrent of intoxicating sounds. Perhaps this feeling can only be awakened fully when the scenery on the stage helps to suggest the situation...
...files of the Hampton Gazette, preserved in the College library, one may find a large number of poems addressed to M. W., which flowed from his facile pen. History says that M. W. rejected the poems, but accepted the man. Jeremiah, in consideration of his increased happiness, consented to abandon his literary projects, and to devote himself to farming. In this pursuit he achieved a success which neither he nor a great many other young men like him could have won in poetry or prose...
Such are the eccentrics of the section. Its hero I have still in store. He is the dropped man. How we all envy the abandon with which he leans back in his seat and chuckles over a French novel! He always has the French novel, and he never has the lesson. When he is called upon, we fresher Freshmen know that the clever answer will be, "I have no books, sir, -am quite unprepared, -really. know nothing whatever about the subject...