Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only story in the number, "Winona's Wooing," is not without merit, but it is so long that it is very tiresome. The first part, Corporal Tubb's Soliloquy, is the best thing in the whole story...
...second part called "Full-formed Letters" is much better. The poems are mostly higly imaginative but there are many evidences of a deep sympathy both with man and with nature. By far the best thing is "Questions," addressed to a little child, which contains many beautiful sentiments, and is simply and smoothly written. The great fault in the style is a lack of coherency and unity which often renders the meaning very obscure...
...small and selfish thing for a man to prefer his own leisure to Harvard's prestige, dawddling away his time in Boston or loafing about the clubs, when his presence and example on the crew, the nine, or the track might put Harvard to the fore, and such a man should be condemned cordially; but instead of that one hears him commiserated for being compelled to keep in training four or five months in the year. Such a spirit will never defeat Yale and Princeton. Men go out to the ball games and sit like so many dummies, almost afraid...
...Shearman are good friends and all Harvard athletes are surprised that anything ever has been said about the matter at all, and doubly surprised that the affair should have been so misrepresented, especially after Shearman had actually used Leavitt's pole. There is a disposition to regard the whole thing as having its origin in the oriental imagination of some New York reporter...
...statement in regard to the pitcher. In yesterday's CRIMSON we perhaps censured the pitcher too severely, when, as it turns out, he was acting only under orders from the captain. But our opinion of the action of the freshman team as a whole is unchanged. No such disgraceful thing has been done before in the history of our athletics. That it was done by a freshman team is a palliating circumstance, but in a game with another college a freshman team has to keep up the reputation of Harvard. If the unmanly conduct of our representatives...