Word: standing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...calendar published. Much of the work done by the committee, especially through the agency of Mr. Birtwell, is of such a nature that it can be known only by those who have been immediately helped by it. But it will be the aim of the committee hereafter to stand before the University as a more definite and compact body, with precise aims and duties to which it will try to do full justice. For the Committee, E. C. STERN, Chairman...
...little importance, however, that College rowing men, alumni of the schools comprising the present Association, keep in touch with the school rowing and stand ready to help the two professional coaches, Glendon and Wray, who have the boys in charge. Let the alumnus of the school go down to the floats at the foot of Chestnut street, in Boston, in the early stages of this season's rowing, and offer his assistance...
...secretary, Dr. A. Van Name; treasurer, Mr. J. S. Smith; for graduate committee, Professor Seymour, Professor Phelps and Dr. Reed. That part of the constitution relating to eligibility for membership was amended to read thus: "The Society shall elect as members all men who have attained a Philosophical Oration stand in the work of freshman and sophomore years together, and as many more as shall bring the number up to thirty in the order of their standing for freshman and sophomore years...
...Deschamps first reviewed the works of Paul Hervieu and analyzed the spirit and motive of the work. Hervieu, in his "Flirt," in "Peints par euxmemes," "L' Armature," "Les Tenailles," and "La Loi de Phmme," has taken his stand as the defender and the champion of the rights of modern woman. He has voluntarily circumscribed the field of his observations to society, the sphere in which woman finds opportunity to show her grace and charm, and to exercise her supremacy. Society life is the life in which he lives in thought, and it is the subject with which he prefers...
However far back we go in ancient tales and traditions, we find all of the characteristics of the short story given in unrivalled perfection. The modern short story writers, however, stand for a new movement because of their attempt to accomplish a certain end by taking a certain attitude. The ordinary novel is objectionable, as Poe says, because it cannot be read at one sitting, but the combination of brevity and unity in the short story is its greatest charm. Every work of fiction depends for its success on its characters, its plot, or its action and circumstances. In character...