Word: clear
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...movement is on foot to investigate the causes of the fundamental weakness of the track team with a view to making clear and, if possible, to eradicate the faults of the track system in the University. It is an obvious fact that during the past ten years at least the standing of track in the University has seriously declined. Since 1909 the team has not won a single intercollegiate track meet...
...delight in mere making and shaping. This delight and this sincerity are of a lower order certainly, but they are prerequisite. Romeo chants his real love for Juliet in the noble language he has learned in sonnetting the shadowy Rosaline. Romeo's creator strikes out that noble language clear and true only after long years of experimentation in technical devices and sonorous nothings. Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Tennyson,--nearly all, indeed, who have most completely mastered the literary art,--have had their periods of aureate preciousness beside which anything in the undergraduate poetry of the present pales into insignificance. Little...
...most, I think I should choose Mr. Robert Hillyer's "A Heron." Here there is artifice, certainly artifice justified by achievement. Here too there is imperfection, but of the sort which a less fine critical sense would have trimmed away, losing with it the suggestion which is now so clear of assured though careless power. The little poem has the sharp definition coupled with the large suggestiveness of the best Japanese painting
...sinking submarines on sight: even though Germany declares war, we should on no account declare war on our part. It is the rights of neutrals to traverse the high seas in time of war that we wish to establish. If we stop at armed neutrality the issue is always clear. The warfare which might ensue would be of a purely defensive sort, and at the same time of the kind most effective against the submarines--which are the only part of Germany we have cause to fight. We should not be in any way committing ourselves to the purposes...
Much as some of us may be in sympathy with these aims, they are not our purposes. If we wish to accomplish anything, we must keep the issue absolutely clear at all times, and not allow it to become beclouded by entangling alliances or by the hatred attendant upon warfare. HALLOWELL DAVIS...