Word: slenderer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...same column is a comment on undergraduate writing. "We come here with no experience whatever, and in this interval, when experience is at once lacking and inaccessible, we sit us down to write literature." In a man's Junior year "he overdraws his slender fund of college experiences. Next he 'goes stale,' and further effort as long as he stays in college is useless." This, howver, may not be generally accepted as the condition of the normal undergraduate writer...
...been suggested that instead of drawing on our rather slender financial resources, the students at Harvard be asked to give a year's subscription to the following periodicals: Life $4.50, Judge $4.25, Puck's Library $1.00, Munsey's $1.00, Godey's $1.00, Strand $1.00, Black Cat 50 cents, Harper's Weekly $3.45, Illustrated American $3.45, Metropolitan $1.00, Ladies' Home Journal $1.00, Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper $3.45, Scientific American...
...first in '94 and '95-it is of prime importance that all who know the moves should enter. The result of this year's contest is particularly doubtful, inasmuch as Columbia, Princeton and Yale will all have strong teams. And Harvard's chances are from the present outlook pretty slender unless new players appear, especially from the incoming class...
...throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind their sympathy of form and movement, that sustains the faith of the crag in its forlorn endurance, and of the harebell in the slender security of its stem, may inspire or soothe, console or fortify, the man whose physical and mental fibre is so sensitive that, like the spectroscope, it can both feel and record these impalpable impulses and impressions, these impersonal vibrations of identity between the fragmentary life that is in himself...
...becomes foreign. Book is Saxon, but a number of books collected together, as could only be done by the wealthy, becomes a library. The weapons of the scholar-pen, ink, paper-all point to foreign origin, and one of them carries us back to the papyrus that waved its slender stems over the little river of Syracuse...