Word: clear
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...crews, including the seven University and the four Freshman crews, had a strenuous afternoon's work on the river yesterday. Most of the ice in front of the two boathouses has now melted, leaving a clear space for the crews to put out. It is hoped that the steam coaching launch, "John Harvard" will be put in the water for this afternoon...
...English per se in the preparatory schools much better than my reading of entrance examination papers led me to expect. The deduction seems to be that there is a deficiency in our whole American scheme of education which makes it incapable of training our boys into habits of clear and logical thinking. Without, it no number of parrot-sung rules can avail. With it the writing of good English becomes immediately possible. The two hundred papers which I have read from the pens of English boys reveal at once the habit of clear thought to which their education has trained...
...sense of beauty, but lacking the truth to emotional experience achieved in Mr. Hillyer's "Night on the Mountain." The latter, though defective in rhyme, fails chiefly in the introduction of "death," and the last line, which escapes anticlimax by false hyperbole. The psychology of Tapolo, "contented" with a clear night while praying for rain, defies analysis. Much better is the heavily alliterative rendering from Tolstoi by Mr. Garland. Its last lines, however, leave the point insufficiently clear, while such phraseology as "wended their way" and "dalliance" mars the prevailing tasteful simplicity of diction...
...remaning prose Mr. Petersen's sketch of "Fiddlepeg Smith" sacrifices to narrative climax the main interest--the character of Fiddlepeg, with whom we fail to attain intimacy. In concluding with Richard Dana Skinner's article on Belloc, which deserved emphasis because of its clear method and definite thought, one notes its greater freedom from petty vices of alliteration, involved figures, and appositional clauses such as mar the style especially of Mr. Moyse Would that the Monthly, as representative of Harvard might stand for truth to life and good sense, as in the work of Mr. Nathan and Mr. Hillyer...
...which won 3 out of 4 games, will furnish many men for the University team. Nine games won out of eleven played was the record of last year's team. In the Northern Division of the U. S. Lacrosse League the University won all three games, thus having a clear claim to the championship...