Word: kind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...collection of this kind can only be made through the good will and painstaking of many individuals, each contributing what comes...
...Williams '99 had an intelligent grasp of the character of Simon Eyre, a master shoemaker and kind ruler of his journeymen. Firk, the main comic character, was played by J. A. Macy '99, whose mobility of feature and agility of limb did much to enliven the scenes. The English Department might say of the part of C. L. Bouve '99 as Rowland Lacy that it was subjective. The actor, though intelligent in his reading, did not seem to make the most of what is perhaps the best part in the play...
...dropped a class, and also those of men who have entered the class regularly, but who had been in their university the preceding year as special students and thus got a few courses to their credit. The first interesting comparison is in the number of men of the firet kind,- "dropped" freshmen. The large number of these men at Harvard shows the strict discipline of our college office, but is partly accounted for by our elective system which allows a man to divide his work unequally among the four years, if he desires, although at an increased risk of being...
This is one of the proofs that Mr. Fox has chosen a simple theme, almost perilously simple in its freedom from machinery of any kind. But the story is told with a directness and grace that give it a charm, lacking in many more elaborate literary structures...
...Remember the other person" and "Lean on your subject" are the last two precepts. The author acknowledges that he has passed by "a whole class of helpful influences" and has "assumed that our cultivation in English is to be effected by naked volition and a kind of dead lift." He recommends him who would speak or write well to "live in the society of good speakers and writers, "for the society of the greatest writers is open to the most secluded...