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Inspired by a rather vague and often formless yearning towards adventure in new lands, a great many men in the University, and in other institutions for higher education in America, are preparing themselves somewhat in learning, and a great deal more in hope, for trade in South America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SOUTHERN UTOPIA | 1/31/1917 | See Source »

...Dislike" furnish an admirable example of the proper use of vers libre, and all in all the best in the number. In the light of the title the whole might be more subtly forceful without the last two lines, for they are distinctly anticlimatic. Mr. Garrison's venture into formless verse is likewise successful, but the other two representatives of this school were better undone...

Author: By P. W. Thayer ., | Title: Advocate Filled With Good Poetry | 11/8/1916 | See Source »

...term "professionalism" the peculiar connotation which is given to it by the Advertiser writer. We do not believe, however, that under a categorical examination he would still hold that his description of the evil covers all cases and is a satisfactory basis of argument. Professionalism is too formless a dragon to attack with any hope of victory. Excess and occasional brutality in college sports are specific charges offering chance for specific reform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/14/1884 | See Source »

...mind-created, formless sprite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1. WAR ECHOES. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

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