Word: field
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...leading newspapers of the present day are full of such articles to a greater or less extent. The writers of these articles, having greater experience than the contributors to college papers, are more capable of writing so as to please their readers; further, they have a greater field of operation, since they are not confined to productions which have their application in any one direction. Besides, newspaper contributors have a much less cultivated class of readers to address; as a general rule but few of the humorous writings of the daily papers are pleasing to the more cultivated classes...
...because other men were to compete for prizes in those arts. Boating, ball-playing, and other forms of exercise, are the favorites by fits and starts, and depend largely for their popularity upon the prominence which is given to them on set occasions. The boat-house and the ball-field lie outside of our daily course, and if not reminded of them we are apt to forget their existence. But books are in our hands every day, and by daily use we grow fond of them. The love of learning is of slow growth, the result of constant mental improvement...
...already made widely known his views upon College discipline, and it is not unnatural that he should now wish to lead into the arena his well-tamed pupil, moulded to his own sweet will, and fully crammed for the conflict. Let us leave them in undisputed possession of the field...
...comment. The technical, almost quibbling manner in which the classics are sometimes treated is in danger of running their study into the ground; and unless a man pursues his reading outside of the class-room, even a four years' election of classics will afford no general idea of this field of literature...
This is very hard to comprehend. We see that the first line might refer to a family scrimmage. But nobody ever heard of a field - and a sloping field at that - floating by a girl's eyes; at least, in this part of the country...