Word: needless
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...imagination, novels and dramas and the like. Men of large observation are the authors of the greatest works of human literature. The Iliad and Odyssey give evidence of this; with St. Augustine it was the same. Dante, during his long weary exile devoted himself to observation. Shakspere, it is needless to speak of. Goethe saw things as did no one else. Browning's greatness lies in the results of his observation. These are the great names in the literary history of the world. The same statements, however, are true of the lesser characters; - Scott, Burns, Gray, Wordsworth, Dickens, Thackeray...
...seems almost childish after all that has been said about the water in the gymnasium, to add another protest against the present unpardonable state of things. It seems all the more needless to say anything since the grievance is one not difficult to remedy, but one which a very little attention could set right. For some time past there has been a great deal of irregularity in the supply of hot water in the gymnasium. Some evenings it will be shut off altogether, before most of the squads have finished training; at other times the supply of hot water will...
...present day. The mere trial of brute strength has ceased to be the main object of sport, and greater precautions are being taken to secure the safety of the competitors from unnecessary accidents. It was in this spirit of having athletics a trial of skill and merit unattended by needless risk, that Harvard made her propositions; and it is gratifying to perceive the predominance of this spirit in the other colleges as shown by the way in which they joined with Harvard in the reform. We are rather at a loss to understand Yale's stand in regard...
...however, are apt to be very long on account of the extreme length of his body and leg reach. In their particular firmaments, Pike and Pierce are also stars of some magnitude. The excellences and defects of the old men have so often been dwelt upon that it is needless to add another chapter to their rowing history...
...incoherent ramblings of an opium-smoking woman, shattered by the insidious habit which has mastered her. As such, it immediately invites comparison with Rud-yard Kipling's "At the Gate of the Hundred Sorrows," to which it bears much similarity in conception and to which, it is almost needless to say, it is infinitely inferior. And for several faulty English constructions in the opening paragraph, there is not the excuse of delineating an opium eater's vagaries of thought. In general, this kind of writing demands a power which very few college men possess, and too often lures men beyond...