Word: metaphor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...matter with the Forum?" a few of its friends who remember its better days are asking. Is it completely deleted, or has it merely crept into a safe hole until the winter blows over. If the latter, then it is high time--if one may mix the metaphor--for the prince, in the person of the new President of the Speakers' Club, to awaken the sleeping beauty with a kiss. A Californian in the Law School recently wrote to his Alumni Fortnightly that Harvard students take a keener interest in public affairs than do western students. Undoubtedly Harvard undergraduates have...
...that abomination the "section-man" (!), he has at least one real suggestion-something not very distantly akin to the Oxford tutorial system. Even if treasures shine from the end of the road of scholarship equal to those which beckon men to athletics (to drive home the brilliance of the metaphor), it is extremely doubtful whether many worthy undergraduates will alter their extra-curriculum activities. It seems as if the undergraduate must be brought to know the pleasure of study itself, the actual exhilaration of intellectual "from." the sense of strength to be got from sound thinking. And it seems...
...general, however, the poems give the impression of jewels too richly set. Gem is juxtaposed to gem without regard to total effect. The above metaphor is inserted in a simile and the sentence in which they occur contains some half dozen other similar brilliants. This galaxy tends to obscure rather than clarify the fact that Nicolette looked forth from a tower and dropped by a cord to the earth below. Incidentally the cord in this procedure becomes a "thread of lustre" and Nicolette "a drop of radiance." The mediaeval romancer in his description of this episode had instincts which were...
...magnanimity of the CRIMSON is proved by the presence of this article in its columns. Indeed there is an air of playful fisticuffs about the Monthly's assault that is not likely to arouse resentment. So that the CRIMSON can at least adopt a flattering metaphor, and admit the resemblance of its critics "to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them...