Word: cavil
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...does cavil however, at Mr. Batchelder's assertion that the last College Character passed with John the Orange-man. One is inclined to think that he has fallen, here for once, into the error of other graduates, who know of the characters of the past, see those of their own time, but who have lost touch too much with the college to see those of the present. Need one give a list? Perhaps men do not like seeing themselves in print as "characters." But one may point to Terry, recently lamented, or to the whole tribe and olan of Yard...
That his criticism is largely destructive and his solutions scarcely original is nothing to cavil at. Both criticisms and solutions are similar to those offered by Harvard graduates the country over. The first subject has been discussed ad infinitum ever since President Lowell sent up his famous "sounding balloon" in his report of two years ago. The second has been even more a point of dispute since the issue of limitation was raised last spring. The lesson to be learned by the College from this continued interest on the part of the Alumni is that the situations must...
...badly written--far from it. The poets have ease and imagination, and are by no means lacking in musical sense; the story-writers are fluent and entertaining; the editorials, deploring Harvard architecture and commending smokers, glass flowers and the Scholarship Service Bureau, are admirably expressed and sound beyond cavil. But barring that final sonnet, none of it, to drop into the vernacular, "proves anything." To Mr. E. C. MacVeagh '18 we owe our thanks for demonstrating that it is not impossible for an undergraduate to write good verse and still to remain aware of the big things that are happening...
...thread of lustre" and Nicolette "a drop of radiance." The mediaeval romancer in his description of this episode had instincts which were truer because simpler. Though Mr. Cummings' imagination makes Swinburne's seem sluggish, the glimpse of any imagination whatever is too rare a joy to permit of cavil. Let us trust that this one may for a time be set to tend a Greek temple--or even to learn how Keats...
...sifted to the bottom presents these two questions: Is the stand which Harvard has already taken a wise one? and Ought Harvard to withdraw from the foot ball league? To both of these questions we answer unqualifiedly-yes. The justice of the principle which we have enunciated is beyond cavil. It is our duty, then, to stand by that which we have chosen. The consequences of such action, while they ought to be considered, should not change our determination. Harvard is not called upon in the least to sanction professionalism or underhanded dealing in intercollegiate athletics. It is a duty...