Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...short hour, then, vanishing, reveal...
...late years, since they have begun to write such books by machinery, there is no opening here by young writers. Fortunately about this time Smith began to read the New York Ledger, and soon determined to write instead a sensational novel of the highest order, which should reveal all the wickedness of a great city. To be sure, he had never been in a city; but genius will readily overcome such minor difficulties, so he set boldly to work. Perhaps the following extract will show more clearly than any description can the force and dramatic power of his work...
...insidious and baleful influence of the New York Nation was alleged to account for the so-called trait of Harvard indifference." This twofold challenge to the student and the Nation appeals to a state of things in College and to an iconoclastic tendency in the Nation which fail to reveal themselves, I think, to the observer who is conversant in any true sense with the phenomena in question...
...REPORT that hazing has been renewed at Harvard has recently been widely circulated in the daily papers. A careful investigation has failed to reveal a single case of the sort, however, and we feel that we are justified in absolutely denying the truth of the rumor in question. That college boys play pranks, and that these pranks occasionally leave their traces behind them, is an unalterable fact, well known wherever colleges exist; but that the bullying system, which began with fagging in great public schools, and ended in the scandalous hazing which is said to have existed here...
...quite serious. It contains, among other things, an essay on Epitaphs, and an address to a skeleton. In the former we are told that the graveyard has always been a favorite place of resort, and that 't is "strange, and even passing strange, that the coffined clay should reveal the good which the living, breathing man failed to disclose!" The "Address," which is in verse, is remarkable for nothing but metre...