Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to verse, the same general principle, sincerity, which has been used in the foregoing papers of this discussion, will apply. A light, or humorous poem is sometimes tolerable, even if it lacks the greatest finish. A good joke may often carry off a poor rhyme. Yet an equally weak attempt to express something very thoughtful, produces an uncommonly depressing effect upon the reader. The language is so inadequate to the idea that the work is in no way successful. So, on this score alone, it is less hazardous to try light verse...
...College students more often fail through feebleness of thought rather than of expression. Their sentiments frequently turn out to be flat, and puny copies of what has been much better said. Yet, if we have not the highest forms of inspiration, we can make light and graceful verse from the light and graceful fancies which belong to our time of life. Such writing is the truest expression of our personality...
There the officers of instruction have increased 60 per cent., here 112 per cent. In that very important matter, "the sinews of war" we have made a gain of more than 100 per cent. to Yale's 75. In the light of these statistics, who can wonder at the desire of the Yale alumni to adopt a more liberal scheme of education and thus make a more rapid intellectual development force greater material prosperity...
...Haven or Cambridge, and listeners at once jump to the conclusion that only millionaires can foot the bills of a student at Harvard or Yale. Even the average expenditure at sometimes figured out is deceptive and misleading, since heavy outlays by only a few will outweigh the light purses of the many. Thus the average expenses of five students may be $1,000 a year, and yet four of them may spend only $500 apiece; the $3,000 flung about by the fifth swelling the total so that the average for all is double the amount spent by each...
...number of related facts are gathered, and put into intelligible form. It is commonly said that the man who does this sort of work in an historical essay, or biographical sketch, shows neither thought nor originality. Yet such a statement is far from true. For it is no light matter to take a given number of facts about an affair of ordinary interest and so arrange them as to hold the attention of a reader. In one way, such is the task of an artist in making colors into a picture. The writer must see what...