Word: barrens
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...England Inter-Collegiate Press Association, and asked for communications upon the subject from certain New England college publications. The matter has as yet been mentioned by few of our exchanges and it seems to us that the seed sown by the Tuftonian has fallen upon very barren ground. In other words, it seems as if there is but little necessity for such an organization between those college journals which aspire to some degree of literary excellence. It must be known to our contemporary that a Press Association is already in existence between the three daily publications of Yale, Princeton...
...which they must forever keep themselves open. The part which knows itself and lives in obedience and receptively to its great whole is strong. The part which calls itself a whole and shuts itself up against the inflow of that universal which is "evergreen," grows dry and barren and desolate and dies. Of how many lives of men and institutions is the secret here? All false partisanship, all barren specialism and spiritual selfishness is but the effort of a part to take itself out of the embrace of the whole. The healthy partisanship is always reacting out towards the universal...
...hear on all sides. Indeed, it is said on good authority that President Eliot and George William Curtis are the only speakers in this country who pronounce English with anything like accuracy - to say nothing of elegance. We hope our words on this matter will not fall on barren ground, and we should advise the men who are anticipating commencement assignments to put themselves in the hands of the instructor in elocution, and do their share toward bringing up a better standard of speaking in the college. We say this not alone for their own special good...
Great stress is laid on the necessity of redeeming barren land by planting forest trees. American farmers have not yet realized the ruin they have inflicted by their indiscriminate destruction of forests making otherwise valuable land sterile and barren. At the Bussey Farm tracts of waste land have been planted with trees which are now quite flourishing...
...class of men whose only ability lies in tearing down, instead of our being able to appreciate an artistic piece of work as a whole, our knowledge must come from a view of it lying dismembered before us like the wreck of some noble ship cast upon a barren shore...