Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...peculiarities. For this reason, then, it is to be hoped that the "Globe" will change slightly the general plan of the next article on Harvard "home life" which it sees fit to publish. Let the rooms be described and illustrated, by all means, for a feature of college life like this is a perfectly legitimate subject for descriptive writing, but let the accompanying biographettes of their inmates be omitted...
...papers have seemed to urge the lacrosse players at Yale to join the league, the Courant, being of the opinion that such a plan is inexpedient, seems to think that Yale had better drop out of the league altogether. The Courant says: "If the men who play lacrosse would like to re-enter the inter-collegiate contests of skill, they certainly should be encouraged, but why once in they dropped out has never been satisfactorily explained. As soon as '87 leaves college the lacrosse players also leave, for most of these are from that class. Suppose we do go into...
...life of a Chinese journalist is a happy one. He is free from care and thought, and allows all the work of the establishment to be done by the pressman. The Chinese compositor has not yet arrived. The Chinese editor, like the rest of his countrymen, is imitative. He does not depend upon his brain for editorials, but translates them from all the contemporaneous American papers he can get. There is no humorous department in the Chinese newspaper. The newspaper office has no exchanges scattered over the floor, and in nearly all other things it differs from the American establishment...
...play must have a moral, a reason for its existence. This moral must be an impressive one and suited like everything else to the taste of the public to which it appeals. Again, the characters must conform to nationality of the audience. All the characters of a play for Englishmen must be English in everything but name. To disregard these elementary laws is to insure short life to a play. The public will endure the work of impositors to a limited extent, but it rarely goes beyond the bounds of toleration...
...persons who in taking ex., take exercise like this...