Word: cover
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Nearly all the speakers showed intelligence in their general treatment of material, but nearly all showed a tendency to try to cover altogether too much ground. Aside from this, the most noticeable fault was a general crudeness in form. Very few men spoke directly and forcibly at their audience and many had bad mannerisms. It should be said, however, that the men had in general a good flow of language and spoke entirely without notes...
...shall consider first the article which appeared in the last Graduates' Magazine, under the heading of "A New Kind of Disloyalty." I must protest emphatically against the spirit in which that was written. The writer, under cover of the name of a department, directs a savage attack against persons about whom he evidently knows nothing, except possibly by hearsay, and about whom he never will know anything until he leaves the window-seat which he is supposed to occupy, and comes down to the ground of common-sense. In the first place, by no means all of the Boston papers...
...warmly commnded. On the other hand, however, the writer asserts too much in thus accusing the correspondents as a body. In the case of the outrageous reports of the so-called "riot" last June, for instance, most of the mischief was done by city reporters detailed to cover the affair. With a few notable exceptions these accounts were not written by Harvard...
Take the field of politics. It would seem that the evolutionary method would be aided by the study of legislation within our universities. Here in our country is a tremendous field to cover. Men should be taught to think, speak and write upon pressing questions. Take for example the laws dealing with crime. Crime is not a misfortune. A criminal is a criminal. We need criminal laws of more common sense. A healthy, manly desire to exterminate crime must be developed. I trust we shall have the standard bye and bye that the best thing...
Several attempts at fables cover the first few pages of this issue. Only two deserve notice. "The Wise Man," by R. P. Utter, is good, but one wishes its tone were otherwise. The dialogue is well done and the topic decidedly modern. The best of the other attempts is "The Mongol and the Chinaman," by Albert Dwight Sheffield. After reading all these essays, however, one sees a reason for the quotation which heads the collection: "For the term fable is not very easy to define rigorously." Two efforts at versifying, the first "To a Guinevere" having no excuse for being...