Word: intents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...impersonal utterance. Then, like Elias, the prophet, "he stands up as fire, and his word burns like a lamp." But too often, when left to his own resources, and to the conscientious performance of the duty laid upon him to be a great poet quand meme, he seems diligently intent on producing fire by the primitive method of rubbing the dry sticks of his blank verse one against the other, while we stand in shivering expectation of the flame that never comes...
...last number of Harper's Weekly, Casper Whitney discusses at length the recent action of Yale in regard to undergraduates on 'varsity teams. Although expressing himself strongly in favor of the effort to exclude all professional element from college sports and denying that Yale's action was taken with intent of "freezing out" the University of Pennsylvania, he does not commit himself as favoring the new rule. He argues with more or less reason that it is a narrow policy to exclude men in the professional school from participating in athletic contests and unjust to the honest student. He admits...
...pamphlet on Harvard University, Mr. Bolles has put forward in a very clear way the true position of the University, the methods requisite for entering it, and especially the nature and opportunities of the college when once entered. A great deal of eulogistic writing has been published with excellent intent, setting forth life at Harvard in glowing terms. This kind of writing has one objection, however; it is apt to be mistrusted. What Mr. Bolles has done is past mistrust. Taking the facts of the University as they are, he has merely recorded them in such a way that they...
...second number a concerto for for violincello, by Saint Saeur, an opportunity was given the soloist to show his marvellous technique; the piece seems to have been written with that intent. On the high notes, the tones were as pure as those of a violin and the low notes were faultlessly accurate...
...dwelling-house of his own, or real estate of which he retains the occupation; if he have a mother or other connections, with whom he has been accustomed to reside, and to whose family he returns in vacations; if he describes himself of such place, and otherwise manifests his intent to continue his domicil there; these are all circumstances tending to prove that his domicil is not changed. But if, having a father or mother, they should remove to the town where the college is situated, and he should still remain a member of the family of the parent...