Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have the closest ties of interest and sympathy, and this coupled with an explicit threat of war. To warn the men of this University that any discussion or criticism of this position of our government can spring only from the lowest motives, and must instantly stop, involves such a novel idea of popular government and such a singular conception of patriotism that serious argument about it is almost impossible. For three weeks thinking men have talked of nothing else, and there has been no stint of outspoken criticism. Unless Mr. Roosevelt has it also on hand...
Your columns are not the place to discuss the Cleveland-Olney policy. Mr. Roosevelt uses them to call for a bigger navy, that being of course the next obligatory step in the novel national career sprung upon us so abruptly by the President, and which Mr. Roosevelt considers it to be a sort of treason now to oppose. There are enough of us who believe that the development of such a national career would be pregnant of calamity for civilization. Men at the student-age are easily swayed by phrases. But I trust that no catch-words or nicknames will...
...Racquest and Tennis Club of New York, held an invitation fencing meeting in which the following teams took part: The Twelfth Regiment, the Racquet Club, New York Athletic Club, the Fencers Club and the Harvard Fencing Club. There were no prizes, but a novel method of judging was tried namely, that of having for judges all those in the front row of the spectators and those not at the time fencing...
...rather novel features are the "Notices," and the Boys' Column, the latter suggested by the methods of the "Ladies' Home Journal." There is also a sarcastic skit on the Saturday Evening Dances...
Professor Cook is to offer a new and rather novel course for graduates next term, in "Encyclopedia and Methodology of English," to train those intending to teach in the qualities and uses of English reference books...