Word: thought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...McConkey and Calhoun struck out. Noyes hit a fly to short right field, which was immediately surrounded by a group of Harvard men. At the last moment, Howland made a grab for the ball but missed it. In the meantime, Noyes was running to second, as no one had thought to cover that base. Campbell picked up the ball and, by good running, reached second before Noyes, retiring the side...
...Henry James is such a powerful writer that I take great delight in reading his works. He has given up his pottering of years past and has become more finished, light, but yet powerful. Time was when I thought Howells was in the lead, but I think James has beaten him altogether. Howells has made a formula and swallowed it, and it has stuck to him. James looks at the world instead of a swinging black ball of geometrical proportions. Still, I think Howells will change his ideas. He seems too clever a man to stick to them. The recent...
...word "tradesmen" was intended to cover the two limited cases above, and that is all. Perhaps the word was badly selected to express our meaning, but we thought it would be generally understood. The committee is acting solely with the desire to make Class Day as pleasant as possible, and to that end we ask that tickets be given to seniors' friends, and to them only. We do not wish to curtail any one's rights to give tickets to his friends, for that is what the ticketsare for. On the contrary we wish to make the enjoyment...
...little annoyance was caused yesterday because the authorities saw fit to close the Library and Gymnasium. The inconvenience of those who wished to use the Library was particularly great. A large number of men who thought of course the Library would be open as usual, expected to do a day's work for the examinations. Why the library should be shut on a day when many men would certainly desire to use the books is a little hard to see. To view the matter most charitably, the authorities showed a blameworthy thoughtlessness in depriving men of the aid they need...
With the exception of a slight hitch in the second verse, the poem entitled "Lines" runs smoothly; the thought, however, will hardly bear close scrutiny...