Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Leahy in lines rather incoherent but evidencing at every turn true poetic power draws a moral from "Dante's Francesca." Mr. Leahy possesses sense, and the present poem with more polish would be admirable. Mr. Berenson in a lengthy paper on "Was Mohammed at all an impostor?" tells in his best vein the story of the great heresiarch. We question the clearness of Mr. Berenson's answer, but acknowledge the peacefulness of his pen in matters ethical. The paper is strong though somewhat involved...
...Girls." In last Sundays issue of the Herald appeared a long article on this play, and as most of our readers have probably read that, we shall not enter into long descriptions. There is room for improvement in several members of the cast and a lack of polish about certain situations, notably the ending of the play, which seems hurriedly done, no doubt will be corrected...
...verse in the present number, as a whole, is not as good as in former issues. Mr. H. E. Fraser's lines, In the Night, although not always smooth and musical, show much purity and simplicity, and their genuineness more than atones for any lack of polish. Mr. F. S. Palmer's verses in his Ode to Herrick, are more musical and better tuned. They cannot fail to stir a genuine lover of Herrick. Mr. A. B. Houghton's Ballad of Pleasure Seekers, though far above the average of college verse, is not, we think, quite up to the standard...
...course, for he was then thrown into conversational contact with men who had been famous for years. There are no such opportunities held open to the undergraduate of to-day; he is held off at arms length while he is being castigated and gets in return little of that polish which comes from association with venerable men! The same gentleman was also privately reprimanded for going to chapel with uncombed head, for not observing a sufficiently religious demeanor, for putting on his hat too soon and for making undue haste in getting...
...attained were there a greater competition. It is the work of the elocution department to arouse greater interest, not only in the Boylston prize speaking, but in the study of elocution. Several of the competitors last evening showed themselves to be speakers of great power, a few of high polish. Little of the traditional declamation was heard. It seemed that at last the idea of the best conveyance of the speaker's thoughts and not an independent exercise of his lungs, was the prime idea of declama tion. And yet there is danger in too great an effort to attain...