Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...black as your correspondent paints us. At the same time I welcome his criticism for the excuse it gives me to put the aims of the Trophy Room Committee before the College. It gives point, too, to the old adage that it is well to look before you leap. B. A. G. FULLER...
...certainly nobody was better qualified to illuminate that subject; but it was wonderful to observe how he showed that such a seemingly dead and gone thing could be a living influence, in so many different ways, upon this work-a-day world. It may seem a prodigious leap from Apelles to chromos, from the Greek tunic to ready-made clothes, or from the Parthenon to a house with a mansard roof covering nothing, but he took us over it lightly. Not to put up with what masquerades as excellence, not to be content with makeshifts, to know that to seek...
...Advocate, issued yesterday, contains the following articles: "Fairy Princess," by T. N. Metcalf '04; "A Heroine Transformed," by G. W. D. Gribble '05; "The Antidote," by R. H. Thomas, Jr., '05; "April," by H. A. Bellows '06; "The Man I Left in Arizona," by J. H. Plumb '06; "Leap-Year, Perhaps," by H. M. Trieber '06; "Lyra Poetica," by G. G.; "The Heart of Gold," by F. C. Irving '06; "The Morning After," by S. M. Peyser...
...early Egyptian Hieratic script selected as the model of the Phoenician alphabet by Count Emmanuel de Rouge's theory and thus, if theory is abandoned, and a derivation from Cretan pictographs is substituted, we have a more or less ascertained history to substitute for de-Rouge's backward leap of one thousand years...