Word: smooth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...article is halting and uneven. The writer of the contribution on "Fifty Lyrics from the Elizabethan Dramatists" has attempted to cover a great deal of ground, and as far as he has gone, has succeeded fairly well. The work is appreciative and careful and the style consistent and smooth. The short contribution "Henry the Second" written in oratorical style contains little that is original or of a high order of merit. It is inferior to the other portions of the number. The stanzas entitled "Arnold Dead" are very unequal. The first is labored and unmeaning, the second pointed and good...
...annual races of the Canoe Club held yesterday afternoon proved very successful. The afternoon, though very warm, was pleasant, and the water was smooth and favorable for a good race...
...spring regatta of the Yale Boat Club was held last Saturday on Lake Saltonstall. The weather was cold and rainy but the water was very smooth...
Only two short poems appear in this number. "I Fought a Thousand Battles" is a very smooth and delicate piece of verse, teaching in an easy style a deep moral truth. The only piece of society verse is "A Serenade." Its style is graceful, yet it lacks, as society verse is apt to do, sufficient motive for its production...
...been bequeathed to the college. For the past few years Harvard has been especially fortunate in being so generously remembered by those whose success in life has been in a certain measure due to the education it has afforded them, attesting their appreciation by giving financial aid to smooth the path of that large class of young men who have the desire, but not the adequate means, of obtaining the advantages of a collegiate training. They recognize how much more real good can be done by leaving their property to an institution which has proved its fitness to survive...