Word: fool
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...style often shows an imperfect sense of the value of words, the writer's evident love of literature, his sympathy with his subject and, at times, his genuine warmth, make his work promising. His extracts from Sill's poetry are less impressive than he means them to be. "The Fool's Prayer," striking as it is, contains more truth than poetry, and would scarcely stick in the reader's mind except for the brilliant perversion at the end,--"O, Lord...
...merciful to me, a fool...
...current Advocate, which appears today, is as follows: "Vistas", by J. H. Wheelock '08; "The Love of Carmina", by J. B. Husband '08; "A Man About College", by J. L. Warren '08; "Restaurant Lessons", by W. M. Ford '08; "A Summer Afternoon", by H. B. Townsend '08; "A Motley Fool", by C. M. Price '08; "On Girls and Gallantry", by W. M. E. Perkins '07; "Twisting the Tiger's Tail", by M. H. Woolman '09; "'The Agamemnon' as an Acting Play", by L. Price '07; Editorials...
...general impression of the young man who sought advice of Christ is wrong. He was neither a liar nor a fool, and we may believe that he was sincere when he said, "These things have I kept from my youth up." There is a lesson for us in this declaration of the young man, for very few men today can stand up and say the same thing. This young man had a clean record and the knowledge of how to obtain such a possession is the most valuable thing that there...
...Trophy Room of the Union, Head Coach Macdonald outlined his policy for the team. All men are to play with the firm purpose of making the eleven, even if they are now playing on the scrub. The present spirit is good, but there is too much tendency to "fool." To obviate this the coaching is henceforth to be systematized. J. L. Derby '08 will have charge of the scrub, T. G. Meier '04 will coach the linemen, and Macdonald the ends...