Word: acceptably
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ambition to shine as a literary light. But here and there at rare intervals we catch a glimmer, transient, it is true, of a pure, new thought, which will not be crowded out, and will in its utterance prove its own intrinsic worth. This, then, we may fairly accept as the basis of Harvard poetry. But what are the poets? Of course we have execrable rhymesters, writers who need not hope for immortality, but the grave. Although a Shelley, a Coleridge, or a Wordsworth may in his college days have penned despicable lines, we have no right to argue that...
...Home Rule must now be settled. The Irish are resolute and under able leaders. The English are in a quandary. Plucky Greece is asserting some of her old time independence. She will resist the encroachments of Turkey, and has politely informed the powers of Europe that she will accept no arbitration from them. What will be the outcome? At home we are encountered by a crisis of a different nature. A derangement of our currency is threatened. The anti-silver men predict a financial revolution unless the coinage of the Bland silver dollar is discontinued; the silver men are likewise...
Matthew Arnold will accept the nomination for the vacant professorship of poetry at Oxford...
Matthew Arnold has decided to accept the nomination for the vacant professorship of poetry at Oxford...
...also very true, that certain parts of many studies can be best tested by written examinations. Let us then accept written examinations without hesitation in these cases; but let the general coarse scale be applied here too; for it is still necessary, and we cannot fairly distinguish, in marks, between different parts of the same subject, or between different subjects. But, - and this is a most important consideration, - as Harvard grows and takes on a more university character, written examinations tend steadily to disappear. For this means of testing is only suited to the technical, elementary, or detailed parts...