Word: long
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...long time no attention was paid to exterior things, to landscapes for instance. Bernardin de Saint Pierre and Chateaubriand were the first to describe landscapes. Then writers and painters came to be allied. Diderot wrote his "Salons"; literature began to borrow some of the methods of art. Changes in the life of races began to be the subject of study...
Yesterday's fire in Hilton's Block so nearly ended in tragedy that it will be long before those who witnessed it can shake off its impression. The college is today divided between a feeling of thankfulness that the desperate jump did not result fatally, and of indignation that such a predicament could have been possible...
...communication of the Photographic Committee that the holder of the copyright on the Portfolio, who possesses similar rights on the Index and Club Book, has voluntarily taken a step toward returning these publications to the direct control of the undergraduates. It is to be hoped that before long the other publications will again become undergraduate in their nature...
...writing. "We come here with no experience whatever, and in this interval, when experience is at once lacking and inaccessible, we sit us down to write literature." In a man's Junior year "he overdraws his slender fund of college experiences. Next he 'goes stale,' and further effort as long as he stays in college is useless." This, howver, may not be generally accepted as the condition of the normal undergraduate writer...
...Side." "Of Passing Moment" is a a dry little sketch of a typical college goody. "Tomasso's Triumph" over his own hot Italian blood is bright and fluent. A new field has been opened by the author of "An Unclean Hand of Providence," who describes an incident on the "long, low whalebacks (the lake men call them 'pigs')" which ply the Great Lakes...