Word: saneness
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Mr. Copeland said, stands by himself because he seldom attempted anything new, but prefers to abide by the sane, sweet-voiced tradition of English literature. Perfection of form is his chief characteristic...
...facts for a true induction. Impartiality of judgment is incompatible with anything but entireness of view, and that entireness is only approximately attainable as the resultant average of divers impressions, the issue of as many moods. It was the many-sidedness of Goethe's culture that made him so sane and sure a judge. Ruskin has been accused of inconsistency only because he has made us partakers of his separate processes of study instead of waiting till he could give us the precipitate of assured wisdom which would deposit itself from the combination of all. Perhaps a certain amount...
...come to a brief but more specific criticism of the last number, - of the editorial the one on the "Umpire Question," deserves especial notice, for its thoroughly sane and sportsmanlike attitude. The prophecy indulged in the "Topic of the Day" proved to be exceedingly, well judged. Mr. Stearn's article on "The Origin of the Advocate" is an extremely interesting bit of college journalistic history. Of the fiction "The Brothers-in-Law" is the strongest as well as the most elaborately worked-up, and "Yesterday and Today," though it does not make itself entirely clear, comes easily second. "A Glass...
...only verse of the number, "Doubt," discusses in six trimetrical lines the advisability of giving to man a mind "so circumscribed that it is blind to all sane doubt...
This form of reasoning is pardonable under the enthusiasm generated by a crowded political meeting and a brass band. But it is worse than bad taste for either party to claim Harvard as a protecting Deity in a quarrel which no sane man a week from election day would regard as having the same moral weight as the Rebellion. How the honorable Democrats found out so conclusively that old Harvard men from 1636 to the present era would have voted for Cleveland and Tariff Reform can be referred to the same source that inspired the assertions of Friday night...