Word: liking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...article on "Our Wavering Paternalism" is interesting and provocative. It makes us think, and it moves us to reply. The author has a lot of good ideas, though he suggests no constructive plan of reform. One regrets that he feels it necessary to crouch under a pseudonym: we should like it better if he signed his name, better still if he would stand on his feet in that Forum which he scorns and meet his opponents face to face. For his tone is sneering, and some of his statements are debatable. There are many who would like to take...
...father, and his heroism when he takes refuge in the ancestral sailor's life. Sluggish oceans of local color, however, have swamped the hero whom the Atlantic surges could not harm. Condensation is sadly needed. Mr. Putnam would voice the emotions of a Nietzschean Superman trying to behave like an Elizabethan gallant, with disastrous results. His Sonnet (the form should not be divided like a Petrarcan sonnet, into octet and sestet) is a rash venture into archaic realms. Mr. Sanger's "Children's Land," faintly reminiscent of the song that thrilled the Brushwood Boy, is mildly pleasing though not distinguished...
...hung onto his hot stuff with well-nigh sublime efficiency. In the field, "Wild West" Ingram brought exclamations of delight to the lips of every beholder, and accepted the most difficult chances with utter sang froid. Prexy Graves was a demon at the bat, and scampered around the bags like a yearling gazelle; and "Duffy" Lewis came through with a three-bagger every once in a while...
...gives evidence of the excellence of the Harvard system; the second promises to aid materially in its preservation. The trophy will doubtless prove a real inducement to good work by future entrants. It would be expecting too much to suppose that the effect of the trophy will be anything like immediate, but it is certain that the school which gets the trophy will not want to give it up, and that the others will do their best to win it from...
...that he wants to know concerning them is whether they conform to the required plan of study and whether they have a reputation for being easy or difficult. Few go to the trouble of finding out whether their courses will interest them especially, or whether they are going to like the professor and his methods. The result is that nearly everyone is taking at least one course with which he is thoroughly dissatisfied and out of which he feels that he is getting little or no benefit...