Word: affairs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some other poor things. Yet too many of the college stories have the fault of open insincerity. A man tries to write of what he cannot so vividly imagine as to make it a part of his own mental experience. His situations are forced, and the whole affair is wretched, - a result of the author's going beyond himself, to paint what he has neither seen nor felt. Of course you can often relate what you have not actually beheld; but still you must have something on which to base your ideas; you must have before you a real fact...
...form. It is commonly said that the man who does this sort of work in an historical essay, or biographical sketch, shows neither thought nor originality. Yet such a statement is far from true. For it is no light matter to take a given number of facts about an affair of ordinary interest and so arrange them as to hold the attention of a reader. In one way, such is the task of an artist in making colors into a picture. The writer must see what is to be in the foreground, and what in the background, how his state...
...complete the work. This prize will serve as a valuable supplement to the Bowdoin prizes and offer a premium for excellence in poetical composition. Some complaint has recently been expressed that rhythmical construction is totally neglected in all our English composition courses, and that college poetry is wholly an affair of college periodicals. The Sargent prize will serve to elevate college poetry to official recognition, and offer an inducement to the college poets to pause for a moment from their "pessimistic wailing." We would suggest that if the prize is henceforth permanent, the date at which the papers...
...were the chief resorts during the vacation. Men were noticeably prompt at every meal but breakfast; Glacialis, where the skating was very good, was frequently visited, and the library had its eye-glassed devotees in goodly numbers. The Christmas dinner at the hall was an elaborate and exceedingly enjoyable affair. Witness the following menu...
...door of one of the rooms and then ignited. Although there was some ground for this outrage, the victim of the assault being a musical friend, the perpetrators were severely censured by the college for the folly and childishness of their act, and it was hoped that such an affair would never be repeated. Wednesday night, however, some miscreants, for they deserve the name, disfigured one of the rooms of Thayer by branding, seemingly with a hot iron, the initials of the occupants upon the door. Such conduct as this is worthy of only a boarding school, and should...