Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to correct as far as possible a wrong impression, which has obtained a certain currency in the college. It is believed by some students that our signals, used in the Springfield game, were made known to the Yale team by the Yale men in our Law School. In the first place, I do not think that Yale knew our signals and in the second place I believe that the Yale men in our Law School acted in a thoroughly honorable manner. Not only did they, when requested, agree to keep away from the practice, but they also voluntarily, before...
...number appears to be of great excellence, although the triolet "Life Hopes" seems to be the best of the three. "Polly" is a dainty poetical trifle, well conceived, though wanting the delicate lightness of touch which the best verse of that style has. A "Villanelle of Change" is correct in form...
...Ruskin's assertion correct, that "All lovely art is rooted in virtue, so it bears fruit of virtue, and is didactic in its own nature...
...Adams is evidently a great admirer of Miss Austen, and, while at times he allows this heroic-worship to color some of his accounts, his story of her life is, in general, correct and readable. He tells of her "childhood at Steventon," her "first visit to Bath," her "removal to Bath," her enjoyment of society there, and a thousand and one things which are or interest to the admirers of Miss Austen. Mr. Adams spent the summer of 1889 in visiting all the localities once familiar to Jane Austen and the descriptions of Bath, Steventon, Chamton, and other places...
...Francis Wilson's Opera Company who is loved wisely and well by a Harvard man, who marries another girl, however, and who herself finally marries his valet. Cupid still continues to stretch "the silver cord of love" between the Harvard man and his operatic loved one, and as the correct working out of the plot demands that they should come together, the wife of the Harvard man and his valet very conveniently fall off a wharf and are drowned! While the story, as a whole, has some good descriptions, the idea of it is highly improbable...