Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...verse of the number is common-place. The "Triolets" have none of that delicacy of turn and sentiment which this particular form of rhyme should exhibit. The other poem of the number is a sonnet upon "Greatness," a word which stands in direct contrast to the lines it heads. The chief features of this sonnet are the absence of poetical imagery and a presence of mixed metaphors...
...stroke and Miller changed from stroke to 2. The order, however, is by no means final. Hight, L. S., has been coaching the '93 crew for the past two weeks, and Goodenow '82 will do the coaching during the vacation when the crew will row twice a day. In common with the other class crews, the '93 crew will stop work next Saturday and take three days vacation...
...Common Marriage" is a thoughtful character study and story of that not uncommon species of man who fancies himself in love with a pretty woman because he takes pleasure in the faint evasive perfume of her hair, in being on the same divan with her, in leaning against the same cushions, and in watching her quick breathing,-who goes a step farther and becomes engaged to her, recognizing his mistake, yet incapable of sufficient will-power and courage to make a clean breast of it and effectually to relieve the entanglement,-who takes the final step and becomes her husband...
...twenty-sixth year and fifty-first volume with the number which comes out today. It is pre-eminently a prose number, there being but one short poem of six lines. Most of the stories are written by new men and are in great measure unpretentious relations of incidents common to a college man's life...
...system of government is costly and unsuitable, [c] Canadian welfare has been sacrificed to British interests; Dublin Review, vol. 35 p. 151; Forum, July 1887; ibid March, 1889: August, 1889; Contemporary Review, Nov. 1881, Handbook of Commercial Union; Bourinot's Constitutional Manual of Canada; Bryce's American Common wealth. II. 410; Dilke's Problems of Great Britain c. 1; Payne's Colonial Dependencies...