Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...intellect was swift and subtle in its operation, frank and uncompromising in its expression. His critical powers were keen and accurate, and they had been trained to practical uses by his study of the law and his experience as a newspaper correspondent. His talent for detecting the besetting sin of a young writer and for characterizing it in a pungent phrase amounted to genius. His vivacity was amazing. He came to each day's tasks as fresh as if he had never been through them before. Often as he had to say the same things, he never said them twice...
...should be remembered that ideas can be conveyed in fiction as well as in the essay. And the editorials, of which one is inaccurate and the others add little to the material contained in the rest of the number, might easily be strengthened. But from the worst sin of a college paper--that of lack of ideas--this number of the Advocate is notably free; and now it only remains for the paper to make its stories and editorials as good as its essays...