Word: failings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pitch of dramatic strength which the plot requires, and the book seems at times strangely to lack a centain intensity of emotion which it ought to possess. In several of the climances that occur in the course of the story, the feeling is not sustained enough, and the situations fail to give their proper effect-the real effect produced on the reader being a slight sense of artificiality, Such a description of Beverly's character as is given in the first chapter by repeating a few stories of his childhood seems not only totally unnecessary, but entirely out of accord...
...Delano, W. P. Homans, M. S. Latham, R. L. McCook, J. G. Mumford, J. Simpkins, E. Sutton, A. Crocker, F. S. Taylor, G. C. Adams, E. L. Winthrop, O. Ames, D. C. Clark, J. D. Bradley, Barnes, Borland. They are requested to be at the gymnasium without fail at 10 A. M., to receive instructions...
...Young men, you can make of yourselves what you will; but a thing once done, is done forever. Live, then, that you may have nothing to look back upon, when you are as old as I am, with regret. Your memories will not fail you; and if you err now, you will have never to be forgotten stains on your lives. You are all authors; each of you at the end of each day has written a page; but what you write can never be erased. Write you books clean, then; live that your memories...
...appointed by which all the necessary arrangements are made. A book is opened,- and then what happens? Out of the 250 juniors less than a fifth respond! Can eighty-six, after the reputation it has made for itself in its college career, afford to allow this class dinner fail through sheer indifference? We think not. We even venture to hope that, not 50 only, but 100 juniors will improve this opportunity to revive the smouldering sparks of class spirit which still glows among the dull ashes of "Harvard indifference...
...warfare are used, possess a great advantage over the ordinary debating society in their sharp contest of wits, and this in the practical experience, which such a vigorous contest produces. The experiment of holding a mock congress has been successful in several American colleges, and certainly ought not to fail at Cornell. The great interest and excitement of a lively convention ought to guarantee a hearty support to the plan, and the Cornell students, if they take hold of the matter with a will, certainly ought to have a good deal of amusement and benefit combined in their debates...