Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...almost unavoidable sordidness around us, to the higher, and finer things of life. That the so-called daily prayers at Harvard fail in this purpose, is too true. They stimulate few or none toward better actions. The failure, however, is merely because they are not prayers. They are an attempt to unite the worship of God with a police regulation. Such a confusion of acts of devotion with affairs of ordinary college discipline must inevitably destroy in us all feelings of sentiment, and reverence. Under the present system we always have a lurking idea that we are worshipping only...
...sure, a few here may have enough depth and intensity of feeling seriously to attempt poetry. But the rest of us, the majority, would do better to forget a first love, which we never had; cease wishing to die; and write of what we know and feel...
...verse, the same general principle, sincerity, which has been used in the foregoing papers of this discussion, will apply. A light, or humorous poem is sometimes tolerable, even if it lacks the greatest finish. A good joke may often carry off a poor rhyme. Yet an equally weak attempt to express something very thoughtful, produces an uncommonly depressing effect upon the reader. The language is so inadequate to the idea that the work is in no way successful. So, on this score alone, it is less hazardous to try light verse...
...done, we can do, forgetting that we are not yet full grown men. We incline to the mistaken view that all the critical reviews, essays, stories, plays, poems, and what not, we write, must be worth printing. To be sure, it may be very good training to attempt a poem which proves to be anything but poetry; but to publish such a failure is foolish...
...from undergraduates than the 'Varsity Crew. In no other sport are the college representatives so hampered by lack of necessary funds. A determined effort is now being made by the officers of the club to pay off the debt which has so long been hanging over it, and this attempt should meet with hearty co-operation on the part of the students. The present management is able, energetic, and conscientious, so that no one need fear that what he subscribes will be wasted, or spent in any but the most desirable and effective way. Let the new year be begun...