Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...none the less true that students can make themselves familiar with difficult themes of college management, only by attempting to look at such themes with a more critical and discerning eye than that of a grumbling college student, who would tear down, but not build up. The resolutions express the opinion of the students at large. In passing them, the conference has fulfilled one of its elementary functions, to express emphatically representative student thought...
...convincing arguments. Of course a question of this nature will naturally provoke strong ideas for and against it. But no unbiased opinion can justly be formed without hearing a fair statement of all sides of the question. We trust that the students will avail themselves of this opportunity to express their ideas upon so important an issue...
...papers, and show by invidious comparisons that our publications are not what they profess to be. While we do not desire to question the taste of the writer of such a criticism, we still feel that the courtesy of the press ought to have influenced the expression. The kindly feeling which has long existed between the various college papers, cannot easily be destroyed by criticisms of such a nature, but more pleasant relations will result in the future if a more generous spirit is shown. It is true that differences of opinion must always exist as to the relative merits...
...same general principle, sincerity, which has been used in the foregoing papers of this discussion, will apply. A light, or humorous poem is sometimes tolerable, even if it lacks the greatest finish. A good joke may often carry off a poor rhyme. Yet an equally weak attempt to express something very thoughtful, produces an uncommonly depressing effect upon the reader. The language is so inadequate to the idea that the work is in no way successful. So, on this score alone, it is less hazardous to try light verse...
...thinks that he has a really poetic conception, it is well for him to try to express himself in metre. But he should be chary about giving such a production to the public; for few are true poets, and he may not be of the few. College students more often fail through feebleness of thought rather than of expression. Their sentiments frequently turn out to be flat, and puny copies of what has been much better said. Yet, if we have not the highest forms of inspiration, we can make light and graceful verse from the light and graceful fancies...