Word: good
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When Professor Moore told us, at the conclusion of Latin 8, about as he has explained in his present article, how we had during our four years of Latin at Harvard become acquainted at first-hand with epic, lyric, elegaic, drama, history, oratory, biography, philosophy, etc., it seemed too good to be true. The eulogy reminded me of the half-blind Irish woman who was attending her husband's funcial, and listening to the priest praise the depaited. Finally she called to her son, and asked. "Mike, are we at the right funeral...
Statistics recently taken at Cornell indicate that there is a fallacy in the theory that the average participant in two branches of sport is not good student. Records based on the work of the first term show that football men have never had such a high standing in the history of the university, for of the work taken by those members of the football squad who won their letters, 93 per cent. was passed, 5.3 per cent. was conditioned, and only 1.7 per cent. failed...
...Hastings. Power is supplied by an electric motor, and there are two manuals and pedals. The tone is declared by experts to be exactly fitted to the acoustics of the hall. In technical phraseology, it is voiced for the size of the hall. The tone is also exceptionally good...
...Burman's "Nail in the Shoe" is the best of the stories, but the reviewer is sentimental enough to wish that the cynical conclusion had not been added. Mr. Babcock's "Willie's Golden Moment" is almost as bad as a story can be. It is to a good dime novel as a melodrama of the movies to a real tragedy. As for Mr. Burk's fragmentary "Delay," a Senior editor should know better than to set such an example of halfdone work...
...vivaciously, making real his many exciting experiences on the road. It is a vivid picture of the war, its ravages, and the men and women near it. As a story full of interest Mr. Sweetser's volume holds us to the last, for he seems to have put a good deal of his own charming personality into the tale, and we often feel that we are by his side. From the very first sentence, which begins: "Flash! snapped the telegraph operator--," we feel the thrill of the young journalist. As a sidelight on the history of the great European struggle...