Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Michigan Chronicle, a journal which does honor to the university which it represents, sends us a copy of its elaborate and attractive Christmas number. We reprint part of the very complimentary article on Harvard...
...worst features of such changes. If it is hard to go to a strange college, it is still harder to leave the college where one has formed friendships and attachments. It is harder, too, to give up all the feelings of college loyalty which form such an important part of student life. College spirit and college friendship give inestimable value to college life. Of an inferior sort indeed we would regard the students who could easily and willingly break their connection with a college that in truth they ought to look upon as their alma mater...
...well told story is interesting, while a poor one is, perhaps, not as bad as some other poor things. Yet too many of the college stories have the fault of open insincerity. A man tries to write of what he cannot so vividly imagine as to make it a part of his own mental experience. His situations are forced, and the whole affair is wretched, - a result of the author's going beyond himself, to paint what he has neither seen nor felt. Of course you can often relate what you have not actually beheld; but still you must have...
...often been said, the first essential for success is sincerity. By sincere writing I mean that into which you have put part of yourself. Like most short definitions, this one means both too much and too little. But when applied to particular cases, it will be limited, or stretched...
...such is the task of an artist in making colors into a picture. The writer must see what is to be in the foreground, and what in the background, how his state-statements are to be grouped to show his meaning most forcibly. In short, he must have each part subordinate to the expression of the meaning of the whole. He must not only be able to see facts apart, but to perceive with equal chearness their relations to each other and to the whole. If he fails to understand all their relations plainly, his performance will be confused...