Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been a matter of conjecture with many students why the German books in the library are not easier of access. Notwithstanding it is of serious importance, little or no public attention has been paid the matter, although the daily annoyance occasioned by this difficulty is the subject of considerable comment in private. It is true in one of the alcoves there are a couple of shelves of German books, but comprising only the works of Goethe, Schiller and Lessing. These are almost useless for consecutive reading, since one is obliged to get them out late in the afternoon and return...
...anything about a theme unless he had something to say. As it is, one very often finds a line or two of criticism so indefinite as to give one absolutely no idea whether the theme be poor. indifferent, or good. An acquaintance of mine recently found this comment as what was meant for a description: "Regarded as a chapter this shows skill. It reminds me of a passage in Kidnapped." Now it happened that my illiterate friend had merely "skimmed" Kidnapped two years before. What did the criticism tell him? Even if he had read Kidnapped...
...marked improvement of our eleven this year over any we have ever had before has been a matter of comment from many sources. That this fact is due in a very great measure to the faithful work of the men, and the untiring efforts of Captain Holden, is beyond dispute. Nevertheless the aid rendered by Messrs. Adams, Willard and Lathrop, in coaching the team, was invaluable. These gentlemen deserve the thanks of the college for the interest they have shown in behalf of the team, and for the time they have willingly spent in coaching the men. Thanks are also...
...first point was a glaring defiance to all rule and precedent, to the rulings of Fiske, Camp and all other referees for three years past; the second was a vast piece of carelessness, if nothing worse, and was the subject of comment everywhere on the field where it occurred. We believe that these decisions lost us a game, won by superior team play. We believe that there is ground for winning a protest if properly presented. We do not like to believe that the referee had any other reasons for his decisions than carelessness and ignorance-at any rate till...
...casualties are usually of a sort painful for the moment, but not grave; for one serious accident, such as befell Captain Holden last week, there could probably be counted a larger proportion in base ball, in lacrosse, or even in the usual course of regular gymnastic training. But no comment is too harsh to represent the ordinary estimate of foot-ball. It is "brutal," it is "ungentlemanly," it is "closely allied to the manners of the prize ring," it is "barbaric," it is "dangerous;" and no representation of friend or lover is strong enough to do away with the rudeness...