Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Realizing perfectly that the impulse of the reader who comes upon the words "loyal support of the eleven" is to toss his paper aside with some such remark as "the same old drool," we nevertheless once more venture a few words on the subject...
...remark accidentally overheard on the street a few days ago seems to us so interesting in the state of feeling that it revealed that we cannot but dwell on it for a moment. Two upper classmen were talking glumly of the outlook for their class eleven. "Why doesn't Blank come out?" said one. "He would brace that team wonderfully...
...Jonson, who if not in all respects a great poet, was certainly a very good critic, said of Donne that he was the most truly a poet of any man in that time (a time that included Shakespeare), but that he would perish for want of being understood,- a remark which time has fully justified, and which I never could help sorrowfully applying to a writer of our own day, Mr. Browning. Style is that expression of a just thought in prose, or of a thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate-neither more nor less...
...which has been going the rounds of newspapers in the West that Harvard was suffering from an epidemic of scarlet fever and was liable any day to close her gates for an indefinite period. This report started, of course, as most rumors of the kind do, from some careless remark, or was built by the newspapers into an elaborate story from the simple fact that about a month ago there was one case of scarlet fever in college. We have it on authority that there is not a single case of serious illness in Harvard today, nothing beyond the number...
There is often in Americans an air of condescension in treating Russian things. For example, Americans express surprise at the excellence of Russian music, implying the contrast between the Russians and the music. The Russian is tempted to add, when a remark to this effect is made: "And I, too, am surprised at the poorness of American music, when I consider the people who produce...