Word: likely
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fifth number of the Advocate, like the fourth has much excellent matter, the prose out-weighing the verse. By far the best piece of work in the number is a story entitled "From a Diary," by C. M. Flandrau. It is thoronghly artistic in every way. The plot is very simple - an ordinary love affair, - but it is worked out in exactly the right way. There is nothing unnatural in any of the conversations or situations, yet there is plenty of the unconventional and unexpected. The descriptions of the various Russian scenes which from the background of the story - morning...
...forth their circumstances fully, as they would do on making application to an individual for like...
...Abbot's way is not careful, is not novel, and, when thus set forth to the people as new and bold and American, it is likely to do precisely as much harm to careful inquiry as it gets influence over immature or imperfectly trained minds. I venture, therefore, to speak plainly, by way of a professional warning to the liberal-minded public concerning Dr. Abbot's philosophical pretensions. And my warning takes the form of saying that if people are to think in this confused way. unconsciously borrowing from a great speculator like Hegel, and then depriving the borrowed conception...
...made up the eleven. They played as well as they knew how to play. The whole trouble lay in the fact that they have not been taught how to play the game as it is played today. In both individual and team play they acted like men who had been left to work out their own salvation. All who saw the game must have felt that it was a burning shame that men who showed so plainly that they could have accomplished so much should have been left to struggle in a hopeless individual contest against eleven men playing...
...made a dash at Harvard's centre, but Dexter fell on him, and it was Yale's second down. Then came the first of McClung's brilliant rushes. Hinkey, Winter, Heffelfinger and the rest of the backs formed into a crescent in front of their captain, and the scythe-like formation rolled out around the left end. Hallowell and the other rushers were blocked off and McClung sprinted along the side till he reached Harvard's 20-yard line. It was an exhibition of beautiful interference...