Word: think
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Interesting as the book is even to special students, its chief value, we think, will appear if it is used as an introduction to the study of Shakspere. We are pleased to find in it none of the absurdities of the "inductive" school of criticism, which makes what should be a literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader...
...student who wishes to give his friends a glimpse of the activities of college life is at present offered few opportunities beyond the athletic games. What wonder that when so many people have come to Cambridge to see football or baseball games the impression should go forth that we think of little else...
...descriptions are recollections written in a sick room, after long absence from the scenes of which he wrote. The fact that he was an artist is what we think of most. In "Virginibus Puerisque" he was a conscious artist. If he was in his other works, he succeeds in dissembling the consciousness. Stevenson was forever occupied with the harmonies of prose. The most beautiful passages are in "Virginibus Puerisque...
...notice that the CRIMSON in commenting editorially upon this communication takes a stand opposed to the views there expressed. In this editorial it is said, "that every effort has previously been made to prevent disturbances by other means than what has been resorted to." I think this is a misstatement. What has been done this year? What warning has been given? Last year to be sure a vote was passed by the directors that, "members of the Association found guilty of ungentlemanly conduct towards visitors in the gallery be subject to suspension from the Association." In this it seems...
...once and for all, let us not give the youths of the day the impression that the only sports to be indulged in are those which do not call for courage. To the timid, a vigorous, well-fought football game is an unpleasant spectacle, and they shudder to think of the possibilities. * * * A man of courage knows too well the dangers of the game, but he also knows how much greater are its benefits...