Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Wendell has no author or group of authors that he is especially bent on praising or dispraising. Some individuals, as is natural, he handles better than others. His estimate of Edgar Allen Poe is excellent for its swift comprehension. And it is quite in contrast with the treatment that Poe has received from many impressionistic critics. This chapter and Professor Gates's essay supplement each other...
...photographs are interesting especially as records of college life and many of them are also of real artistic worth. The pictures of the Yard given by W. B. Swift '01, were taken when the trees were bare of leaves, and the camera was so placed as to bring in the outlines of the branches with striking effect. The pictures of Hollis and Stoughton, of Memorial and of the Johnston Gate are especially beautiful...
...second half, Princeton played swift, hard football from the start, keeping Columbia on the defensive. In the middle of the half the most sensational play of the game occurred. Roper of Princeton got the ball on a fumble by Berrien, and ran forty-five yards for a touchdown. Mills attempted to kick the goal, but Roper, who was holding the ball, let it slip from his hands and touch the ground too soon, Columbia of course blocking the kick. This error lost to Princeton her only chance of tying the game, as no further scoring was done during the half...
With the purpose of exhibiting clearly the permanent and essential characteristics of both the great parties he reviews the life of the Republican party through the periods of the territorial issue, secession, reconstruction, and subsidence to sectionalism, down to the present, "when two swift changes of issues apparently revolutionized our whole political system." He maintains, however, that in spite of the recent violent outbreak of discontent and in spite of the commotion caused by the Spanish war, neither party has been deprived of its essential characteristics. Both theories contain truth and both are essential. The Democratic ideas should control when...
From 1903: Marshall--R. Derby; aides--J. D. Clark, E. Bowditch, R. Ernst, L. Daly, A. Stillman, R. Kernan, T. H. Graydon, S. Whitwell, A. M. Brown, R. Swift, D. W. Knowlton, N. S. Bartlett...