Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...poets comes out this month with a poem on the Mauvaises Terres, and freely slings in flowing rhythm such terms as "Cenozoic twilight," "sutured skull," and "circumambient walls . . . . with alkaloid surcharged." Now, we can understand such an expression as "sepulchral tomb," - indeed, the meaning is only too plain, - but when it comes to "Oreodon" and "Titanotherium," - if this goes on, new metres will have to be devised with special reference to the scientific dictionary. We recommend this poem as a syllabus to all who elect Natural History...
Among the etchings is a "St. Jerome in his Study," which we can compare with Durer's treatment of the same subject. In Durer's engraving everything is plain and clear. St. Jerome sits in his study, which is flooded with morning sunlight. Rembrandt gives us St. Jerome in a study which we are tempted to think partly underground. He is meditating, and the shades of twilight almost hide him from our sight. Behind him, by dint of repeated efforts, we discover a dingy stone staircase, which either goes up into a dark entry or ends at a door...
...compulsory. But to us the English method, where breakfast could be provided in the room of any student, has always seemed pleasant; of course the arrangement here, quite different from the English, would make it impossible for the College to do such a thing. But really, to prepare a plain breakfast not much work is necessary, nor to prepare a light supper. One entry might unite, rent a room, and have what little cooking was necessary done in it by some one who should come and do the work and furnish the meals to the students in their rooms...
...Gymnasium and its inadequacy to the wants of the University. The remedy proposed, though the best perhaps that is available, is, however, a sorry one. "As the University has plenty of unoccupied land, it would be advisable, instead of undertaking to alter the present structure, to erect a plain wooden building, extensible in any direction, for a Gymnasium and Bowling-alleys, and to convert the present Gymnasium into a swimming-bath, a use for which it is well adapted." A wooden building of any description whatever, placed, as it would probably be, near some one of the substantial brick...
...agree with you? - but it would be hard, and more, for you to show that this experience differs in any marked degree from that which the comparatively illiterate can and do obtain as well without ever stepping within the portals of a college. It is not yet sufficiently plain to us, furthermore, that nearly all our good political leaders have been scholars, and almost all the bad have not. On the contrary, it has been our impression that so nearly have all the statesmen or would-be statesmen, both good and bad, who have yet attained any note in this...