Word: say
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is not to say that all the others are to be classed as "grinds." The term "grind" is, or ought to be, applied to the man whose interests are one-fold, whose mind is literally single-tracked. He fails to acquire the human element in culture. Of course, the scholar whose name appears on no University record besides this list and the Directory, may have varied tastes; the drama, or music, or attempting to create literature may be his humanizing hobbies. And the football player may be a grind as well as the scholar,--if he cannot see beyond...
...Cornell athletic authorities have received no request from the Yale management regarding the release of Dr. Sharpe from his five-year contract, and it is safe to say that in case we did receive such a request, we would not consider it for a moment...
...will not do to sit back in smug complacency and say "my talk is all right," or "it's nobody's business." Collegiate life in general can bear improving. In a university, if anywhere, ideas should creep into the conversation. And the value of talking, when mind meets mind in frank communion and keen interplay, can be compared favorably to text-book study. The undergraduate could learn more of the satisfaction one feels when he can truly say, as Dr. Johnson said (and Stevenson quoted), "Sir, we had a good talk...
...Flesh." It is full of interesting matter, of which a greatest art will be new to most readers. The second literary essay, Mr. Littell's "Imagines and Gargoyles," seems the work of a writer who has not grown up no his vocabulary, but who has things to say and may discipline himself into saying them well. Of the two stories, Mr. Dos Passos's "Pot of Tulips" contains skilful description and an inimitable heroin. Mr. Whittlesey's "Best Laid Schemes" is lively, humorous, and endowed with a "double back action" in its final surprise. "The Poet and the Porcupine...
...friends it was regarded as a downward step. The politicians laughed because they thought the university graduate too unsophisticated to succeed, while the friends, on the other hand, thought the demeaned himself by association with these public servants. Yet these same friends who would not soil their hands, they say, by entering the arena, would not hesitate if their pockets were threatened by legislation to hire some lobbyist to act for them, and never feel a qualm as to any questionable methods that might be used. In England men of education and men representing property rights go into public life...