Word: things
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...basis of sound philological and historical scholarship. The Advocate hopes to see justice done Poe when the Puritan shall have passed--but why shall not justice be done him now? In fact there is a suggestion of Poe in "The Cat and the Mouse"--an effective story, with some thing of Poe's grim despair and situations full of horror; the tone is different from Poe's, but a result like his is gained. In "Will Ellis" a situation is described in which a tragedy is inevitable--the passionate protest of an ignorant mountaineer against the invasion of his domain...
...treasurer of that, a member of an executive committee of still another society, and probably implicated more or less in athletics at the same time. When he is finally chosen for a class committee in his last year, he will probably begin to realize the absurdity of the whole thing. First to be neglected is his College work and then his various duties are liable to suffer in the reverse order in which he esteems them...
...Junior class ever seems to succeed in making preliminary arrangements for the Union dance without being put to considerable trouble by the men who will not make applications or do any thing else in this world until the last minute. The class of 1910 has followed this custom excellently and differs only from the classes that have preceded it in being more annoying and less ready to aid the committee than any class within our memory...
...lives of these men, we see splendid devotion to the good of others and a total disregard of themselves. In the words of Charles Lowell, "The one thing we must not do is to think of ourselves...
...Salter began by saying that there are two things that embarrass us in reading Shaw: first, whether he is to be taken seriously or not, and secondly, the way in which he shocks us morally. The first thing to be remembered is that he is a socialist and looks for no good results from our present social organization. He is annoyed to see people who are "comfortable" morally, because they have established a new public school, when they ought to be uncomfortable; and he tries to make them uncomfortable by his writings. He is really one of the most serious...