Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...handle their subjects with considerable skill; and are obliged to refuse them, because they are written upon matters which we cannot, as a college organ, publish. It is no small trial for an editor to be compelled to consign articles like these to the oblivion of the waste-basket, which he does with a sigh of regret that talent should be so misapplied, at the expense of his columns, so hungry for copy. The most favorite subject seems to be "Popular Men"; and these rather indefinite creatures are made the objects of sarcasm and raillery, and the system of society...
...which are all that the class have for the basis of their opinion. His unsuccessful articles are known to the editors alone; his writing may be uneven; one piece may be good and make a reputation for its author, and then half a dozen go deservedly to the waste basket. Moreover, many articles which appear have been bolstered and physicked and amputated until almost entirely changed. In this case would the class be likely to choose wisely? Concerning another danger,-the most important one,-we quote from the Era: "As for ourselves we cannot help feeling grieved at the evident...
With heavy heart and basket light...
...with solicitude after the sheep and the crops; make the greatest display of your shallow agricultural information, and then laugh in your sleeve to catch from the whispered comments, "Remarkable clever young feller," "Seems to know considerable"; and, from the good old ladies, "Why, he's perlite's a basket o' chips." And then, when you went to ride with that cousin of yours, though we all know the horse took his own time when you were off on the back roads, how you straightened up as you drove down into the village, and reasoned with that horse (illustrating liberally...