Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...MUNICIPAL CLUB. "The Present Drift of Charters." Mr. Robert Treat Paine, Jr. Emerson...
...MUNICIPAL CLUB. "The Present Drift of Charters." Mr. Robert Treat Paine. Jr. Emerson...
...must the lovers be "brave" in their love? One may surmise the explanation, but it does not seem to me that the poem makes it clear. The piece has emotional and descriptive power. The verse is weakened in places by unnecessary repetition of words and phrases: "that drift--that drift," "wild, wild symphony," and several other expressions. The weird, solemn picture in "The Caravan" is impressive, the wording is good (preponderance of monosyllables), and the vagueness gives the imagination free play. The interrogation points in the second and third stanzas should be omitted. The conception in "The Flower Stall...
...Vast ice-floes, starting from Behring Sea, have floated across the comparatively open water around the North Pole, into the region near Greenland. Mr. Baldwin intends to establish a camp of portable houses, with an adequate supply of fuel and provisions, on one of these ice floes and to drift with it, and in this way, he expects to reach the North Pole...
...often a Freshman debating club wastes most of its time on points of order and other academic formalities, and all but the few members who are interested in the highly specialized art of debating become disgusted and drift away. A certain attention of course must be paid to form and procedure, and the development of a Freshman team to meet the Yale freshmen must be considered. Still, a fair proportion of the meetings should be devoted to open discussion of topics which interest not only debaters, but scholars, athletes, and everyone else. This arrangement gives practice in clear thinking...