Word: specimen
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...other words, the purpose in the United States aims at making of an ordinary man a physical specimen capable of being converted into a soldier in the event of a future war. In France and Germany the men are moulded into soldiers for instant use. While in the United States benefits from the training accrue to both the man and the nation, in France and Germany the nation only is benefited...
There is an echo of a still remoter past in one of the contributions of Mr. Jayne, who really ought to stick to verse if he can't write decent prose. Here is a specimen that the late A. S. Hill should have lived to study: "It is not so much a respect for obtaining these rhymes that we feel, but rather that he is able to work them into a poem so facilely." This gem adorns an essay on "The Inimitable Ingoldsby Legends." Eventually, we foresee, Mr. Jayne will get round to the works of W. S. Gilbert...
...hopes that an actual test of cowardly qualities between these countries will never take place. But the contemptuous indictment involved in the editorial is not only unnecessary and unwarranted, but is most susceptible to interpretations that would easily lead to resentment and national animosity, especially as it forms a specimen--not a representative one, I hope--of opinion from men who have had the best opportunities of education and may guide the future destinies of the nation...
...specimen of passionate and pessimistic piffle that appeared in your columns on March 22 is but characteristic of the opposition that has manifested itself to the proposed plan of compulsory membership at the Harvard Union. The assertive attitude of the writer is doubtless open to exception...
Altogether this is a good specimen of the Monthly; not astonishing in any way, but well up to the high standard of the paper. There is no contribution that is not well written, no contribution that makes one feel that the editors were short of material and had to fill up somehow. It is frankly undergraduate, frankly literary, devoid of pretensiousness and and affectation, entirely normal and sane. Undergraduate publications are apt to be either trivial and careless or else over serious, too much impressed with their splendid mission. Both these pitfalls the Monthly successfully avoids...