Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Revolution" is the best production of "C. E. H." which has appeared in the Advocate, although its merit is not conspicuous. The style is simple, the story straightforward; there is a lack of climax at the end of the tale, however, which leaves an unsatisfactory impression...
...rooms when Messrs. Hodges and Sherwood arrived. Cumnock introduced the former gentleman as spokesman for New York, saying that the whole college owed the graduates from that city unstinted gratitude for the earnest efforts they had made to show our athletes how their efforts to win in a straightforward gentlemanly way will be backed by the approbation of the alumni. He added that Mr. Hodges had often shown his loyalty to Harvard in defeat as he now had a chance to show it in victory. Mr. Hodges then made a short address, the drift of which was that...
...Storey then proceeded to arraign the tariff bill in a remarkably clear, lucid, and straightforward manner. He said that the McKinley bill marks a new departure and is merely an experiment and a beginning. He then spoke on the four essential features of the bill and brought out the disingenuousness of the republican leaders. Mr. Storey devoted a long time to the discussion of sugar's being on the free list. He drew a comparison of the old and new tariff laws, said that somebody understood every line but that nobody understood the whole...
...last number of the Advocate which appeared January 3rd, is above the usual standard. The editorials, although they do not suggest anything new, are straightforward and to the point, the subjects headed under "Topics of the Day" cannot fail to interest all Harvard men; the stories are some what original in conception and are well told, and the verse is fair...
...this condition of affairs is "a truly democratic spirit, freedom from narrow selfishness and above all a high standard of manhood." The last editorial treats of the formal reply of the Athletic committee of Harvard to the Faculty committee on Athletics at Princeton. "The reply is in itself complete, straightforward, clear and to the point; it is all that we could have wished for and more...