Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Brown, who were present, to join. If the Athletic Associations of the New England colleges should join the Union it would make the New England Association the most powerful division of the A. A. A. U. It would also, in part at least, do away with the practice common among some athletic clubs, of bidding for nonresident college athletes and then would greatly benefit athletics in New England...
...sixteen he wrote his Pastorals, which were well received by the London wits. After the Pastorals came the essay on Criticism which was exceedingly popular. It was a criticism of the common opinions of the time in regard to poets. Its force lay not so much in the ideas presented as in originality of its expression. In it, the early development of Pope's style is plainly shown. The Essay on Criticism was followed by the Rape of the Lock, a poem interesting not only for its delicacy and skill of expression but also for its matter which reflects well...
Shall a secret ballot of the whole university be taken at some time within three days from date, each department separately, the whole vote to be taken in sealed boxes to some common counting place and there counted, said vote to be on the following questions: First, shall the act and agreement of the athletic captains and managers be ratified and stand till...
...learn this art of selecting such of our air castles as are most likely to materialize? Our common sense and our consciences must teach us. Experience, too, can help us, but it is too likely to discourage by showing all the difficulties which will confront us when we try to make our ideals take material form. It is true that no house can contain the Lord, but we have the power of building by our lives one in which He will be well pleased to dwell...
...very common, the number contains two articles on travel, one by Henry Van Dyke entitled "From Venice to the Gross-Venediger," the other by Alfred J. Weston, called "From Spanish Light to Moorish Shadow." There are so many magazine articles of travel which are hardly more than mere guide book accounts, that it is a pleasure to come across such an appreciative writer as Dr. Van Dyke. He gives something more than a topographical description of the country passed over; and when he gives this, he puts it in a charmingly readable form. There is a distinct atmosphere...