Word: telling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been run off in the morning, so that only the best men started. From the crack of the pistol Sanford of Yale and Marshall of Harvard took the lead side by side and raced fiercely the whole distance. Merrill followed three or four behind till the pace began to tell on the leaders and then on the finish he spurted out between them as is his custom, winning in 50 2-5s. Sanford and Marshall fought it out for second and the Yale man just...
...heart and soul which gives the Church and Liturgy their true signification. Until the symbols are explained, they serve merely to hide their true meaning. Thus the relation of man to the infinite and unknown of life must be understood. Man, living in the known world, can tell nothing of the infinite, but upon coming to the blank wall of the unknown, without being able to affirm anything, he feels that there is something behind it, which, however, he can define only by negatives...
...will be his usefulness in after life; secondly, how much money does he need to enable him to secure a college education. We believe that the first question cannot be answered definitely and that the attempt to answer it by reference to college rank is particularly disastrous. Who can tell, or who even honestly thinks he can tell, of how much use a student will be in after life by counting the A's and B's which he secures in his courses at college? And what justification is there for giving one man a hundred dollars more than...
...fact. It was the skilful proportions with which the ordinary metals were balanced one against the other, and the perfection of form and the nice gradations of thickness that wrought the miracle. And it is precisely so with the language of poetry. The instinct of the poet will tell him whether to use a Latin or an English word, and then, unless the form be all that art require or the most sensitive taste finds entire satisfaction in, he will have failed to make a poem that shall vibrate in all its parts with a silvery unison...
...method was the only right method of writing. As a novelist he was an artist, but in criticism he was narrow-minded and bigotted. He wrote too much, too many pages of mere detailed description. In this way he has fallen into the trap of Psychology, making his characters tell what they think instead of trusting to their individuality to demonstrate their thoughts. He might well have relied on this feature of his characters, for no one knew better than he how to make mere paper men and women talk...