Word: styling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...story in the number is "A Literary Love Affair," by Mr. Rollins, who has dashed off eight full pages of love and adventure--or rather, a lapse of love and misadventure--absorbing all but three pages of the number. The plot is good and moves along well, but the style is not workmanlike. The piece is too long for its substance; it impresses one as being "padded," as though the writer had incorporated unimportant incidents merely to please his fancy or give his descriptive powers a fling. The ending is a trifle unintelligible, being either so obvious as to utterly...
...only once been defeated by M. I. T. and should have an easy time continuing this record tomorrow evening. The squad has been handicapped by poor ice surfaces in the Arena during the past week but in spite of this there has been a steady improvement in the style of play. Each individual has been learning to efface himself for the good of the team so that spectacular plays have been infrequent in the practices and the men are working more and more as a unit...
Harvard has occupied the foremost place in American college hockey during the past nineteen years. Crimson teams have set the standard to which any team that desires a championship must conform, while the style of play which Coach Winsor has so ably developed is being adopted by the leading college teams...
Thursday, January 11: "The Academic Style...
...hold the lay reader. The description of Zuloaga's "Portrait of a Dancing Girl" is rather less successful. Though a faithful picture, it lacks the vigor and life which Mr. Larkin has breathed into his portrayal of "Till Eulenspiegel." "Mr. Sunday on College Men," we have, written in newspaper style, an interview with the famous evangelist. As an interview it is intimate and wholly interesting; as literature, of course, it is of less merit...