Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...astray of the stage, and in spite of the fact that the best literature is in the highest sense dramatic. The plays which are observed today are seldom, even in a crude fashion, literary. Sound literary spirit, nevertheless, adds force to a play. Action is not the one thing needed in a good drama. Thought, and the lucid expression of this thought are also needed in it. The emphasis which has been laid upon action and situation, however, has led the men of literature-the only real writers that we have-to let the stage take care of itself...
...question of the value of prize essays for the cause of science and higher literature would form an interesting one for investigation, either in its historical or its theoretical aspects. It is said to be a commonplace of criticism that no good thing can come out of a prize essay. A recent writer instances Prof. Bryce's "Holy Roman Empire" as the only composition of this sort that has proved an exception to this rule. We do not know of any cases of prize essays from American colleges that can be called such exceptions. It is possible that there...
...system was lost by a very narrow vote. Naturally the discussion is one that chiefly interests Yale men, since the society system in vogue at New Haven has very few points of similarity with the system at any other college. As it is it must be considered an excellent thing that so large a proportion of the present senior class at Yale has had the courage to hold to and express its convictions in this manner. It is not likely that the end of the discussion has been reached. It is probably just beginning...
...comments of which the following are specimens: "Good, very good!" "Oh, of course," "A good one," "Right you are," "A trifle exaggerated, friend," "How astonishing," etc., etc, Moreover, this patriotic person has taken pains to prevent his comments from being erased, by writing them in ink. This sort of thing is to be expected in the books of a public library, used by a miscellaneous class of readers; but it is humiliating that a student in Harvard College-for we cannot but assume that a student was the guilty person-should not know better than to commit such...
...their heads, is not absolutely necessary to produce a fine playing nine. Now throwing and catching the ball and good field work may be admirably practised among amateurs without any outside aid, as last years college base-ball record shows, but batting and making safe hits is quite another thing and it is here that professional aid always tells. It is absurd to believe that the practice given to batsmen by an amateur pitcher can accomplish the same results as that given by a professional, since the pitching is not so swift nor so sure, two requisites seldom found...