Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...method of thought, and a narrow way of looking at things. You cannot gather figs from thistles, nor acquire a ready style and ample vocabulary from constant application of the familiar, "What does the author attempt? Is the attempt worth while? Is the attempt successful?" These three phrases stand like ghouls at the mental feast of every wretched sophomore, and, with cruel knives carve his repast into morsels to suit themselves...
...future day. Instead of builders in literature, we shall have a class of men whose only ability lies in tearing down, instead of our being able to appreciate an artistic piece of work as a whole, our knowledge must come from a view of it lying dismembered before us like the wreck of some noble ship cast upon a barren shore...
...numerous complaints that have reached us, we judge that his opinions are shared by a large number of men in the class. One piece of descriptive writing is worth, to the student, half a dozen criticisms, no matter how well or carefully the latter may be written. It seems like reiterating a self evident truth to say that almost anyone can sit down and pick to pieces or show defects in the best of written work. But, does anyone think that merely because a person is able to show faults in some one else, he is also able to write...
...RUSSELL.I would like the lists of the Finance Club, Harvard Union, Shakspere Club, Glee Club, Pierian Sodality, Bicycle Club, Boylston Medical Society, Canoe Club, Cricket Club, Polo Club, Shooting Club, Lacrosse Team, and all other societies that have not yet been handed me, by Monday evening, Nov. 9, at 10 p.m. Lists will not be received for the "Index" after that date...
...would like the lists of the Finance Club, Harvard Union, Shakspere Club, Glee Club, Pierian Sodality, Bicycle Club, Boylston Medical Society, Canoe Club, Cricket Club, Polo Club, Shooting Club, Lacrosse Team, and all other Societies that have not yet been handed me, by Monday evening, Nov. 9, at 10 p. m. Lists will not be received for the "Index" after that date...