Word: markings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spirit and simplicity, two excellent things. The other two contain such lines as "to take life naked at primeval hands," "that men have meant me nothing," "crossing the languorous lilts of water," and other phrases which are neither beautiful nor sensible. The verse in the number bears distinctly the mark, not of the amateur, but of the "amachure...
...gown garb is a sort of cocoon from which the Senior will emerge as a very humble moth in June. But the cocoon days are happy ones, and rightly. The soberness of the robe signifies no corresponding gloom in the class; Nineteen-fourteen has not assumed black to mark its declining days. On the contrary, Nineteen-fourteen is just beginning to live. What with Junkets and picnics, and bright days and gay nights, cap and gown time will pass quickly and merrily. So, paraphrasing the advice given to the obullient and pugnacious youth of the University not long since...
...Freshman baseball with St. Mark's at Southboro...
...growth of which the very existence is precarious. Mr. Damon's article makes a searching examination into the various requirements which have to be adjusted in this most composite of arts, and his suggestions certainly have the spontaneous enthusiasm of youth. One point, however, is somewhat wide of the mark. The statement that "cities of any size abroad are able to support a company throughout the winter, whereas Boston cannot do this for eighteen weeks" merely records the chief practical difference between foreign management and our own. Every one of the leading opera houses of Germany and France is subsidized...
...urged that the doctors were merely theorists, basing their cures on material found in books rather than on actual experience. He also had a number of personal reasons for his dislike of the medical profession and unprejudiced investigation only tends to show how Moliere's overwhelming charges undershot the mark. In the 17th century doctors were profoundly ignorant of many basic principles of their science and not only this, but they also were indignant if any one opposed them, as did Moliere...