Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...badly advertised, the fact remains that scarcely 75 men were interested enough to come to a meeting of this kind at which the speakers were the President of the University and one of her most heroic graduates. Major Higginson. And so the service-failed utterly of being the splendid and triumphant memorial which a packed Chapel would have made...
...stage directions ("Had there not been something peculiarly ingratiating about this man, I should have maintained my custom of refusing these highway requests at all times. As it was, I stopped to argue with him,") which are inconsistent with the general style and plot. But the piece breaks into splendid originality in two speeches of Tom Gowan, the lovelorn murderer, and in the conclusion, which is far better than either the sentimentalism of the one or the fatalism of the other of the two authors whom Mr. Gowdy is consciously or unconsciously imitating. Again, many of the purely descriptive passages...
...trained observer, which we find in "The First Hundred Thousand." It is however, a thoroughly good piece of work for a novice at journalism. Primarily a personal narrative it succeeds in giving a picture of the methods of fighting "Johnny Turk," and a general idea of that most splendid of failures, the Gallipoli campaign. The framework of the story is the brilliant career of the First Newfoundland Regiment, from which the author was parted only by a wound, leading to his honorable dismissal from the service. Anecdotes of other regiments and of brave comrades, tales of heroic deeds, and convincing...
Harvard surely has been making splendid strides during the past two weeks. The M. A. C. game showed that the eleven is being coached to fight and to fight hard, and save for possibly one or two positions, the team has been working together for two weeks at a stretch. Harvard this year is physically well qualified. The question for today is whether the team as a whole has been able to assimil- are the thorough coaching received and is ready to put on the football it should know...
...pervaded with the charm and genius of Mrs. Fiske. It has been said that no part wholly deserving of her talents could be written by any save Mrs. Fiske herself, but here in Miss Juliet Miller, elocutionist, is a character--unique, vigorous and unfaded, and one that gives splendid opportunity for the star's delicate and whimsical touch...