Word: crude
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fitted to accomplish the purpose for which it was employed, - to provoke good critical work carefully done. In the second particular the practice is one which distinctly does not tend to improve the student's style. Improvement of style is not to be attained by a perusal of laborious, crude, and often abortive college compositions, but by a study, and a hard study at that, of the best works of the masters of English prose. Arnold, Shelley (letters), Fielding, Huxley and Webster may be read and studied to advantage if improvement is desired in the power of criticism, description, narration...
...have too little skillful compilation and arrangement of facts, so we have too much crude, or borrowed literary criticism. College editors have too great faith in the opinions of themselves and of their friends. They should not so readily allow the publication of their own and others' immature and uninteresting remarks upon things, books...
...earlier stages just mentioned. Here is the last issue of one of them whose contents are "What is an education?" (eight pages long and "continued in our next.") "What do the signs of the times predict," and "Capital punishment." The work of all the southern papers is crude by northern standards, excepting always the Virginia University Magazine, but their tone is one of intense seriousness, strongly in contrast with the flippancy of some of their northern brethren. For something entirely novel and original, however, one must look to the West, to the so-called seats of learning that have sprung...
...desirable than these which the talk of the Professor only can give? It surely seems plausible that for three hours each week he can give more information to the men in any course than they can ever obtain by hearing some of their own number repeat in a more crude way the things which they either know already or have written in their note books. Much valuable time seems to be unnecessarily lost, especially in the larger courses. There, each individual person ought to have a correspondingly shorter time, but that is a thing that but few instructors can guage...
Again, let us look at foot-ball, which in the days of "Tom Brown," was played by fifty or more men, without any more regard for science than any ordinary mob displays; no doubt the game was exciting; no doubt, fine plays were made; but it was still painfully crude and undeveloped. Let us look at it now;-twenty-two men, carefully trained and in the highest possession of all their powers, contest the game with all the confidence and skill that only careful instruction inspires. There they depended on numbers and strent to win the game; here, there...