Word: thought
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...learned the other day that it is common in newspaper offices to have what is called a "style book." This is a pamphlet containing not only the special technical rules for the preparation of copy for the particular journal, but also lists of words and phrases which are thought to have served their time and to have earned a rest. It occurs to me in reading the new issue of the Monthly that it might be of advantage if something of the sort were compiled for the contributors to the college papers. Generations of undergraduates replace one another so rapidly...
...predecessors in this respect. Of the two pieces of criticism here published, that by S. Hale has no more than the usual amount of literary slang, and if most of what he has to say of William Watson's poetry is fairly obvious, it is at least clearly thought out. W. A. Green's "The Versatile Mr. Kipling," is less satisfactory. He is guilty of saying that "in 'Gentleman Rankers' there is a more serious turn of finality" than in "the whimsically pathetic protest of 'Tommy'." If the Monthly had had a style book. Mr. Green would have been forced...
...final demonstration for the football team before the game will be a precession of all undergraduates to Soldiers Field tomorrow afternoon. The procession will start from the Union at 3.30 o'clock and will march to the Locker Building and cheer the team there, as it is thought best not to disturb practice or the work on the Stadium...
...Michel pointed out the development of architecture in the cathedral, as shown by the difference in the portals, especially by the figures in the south portals which were cut by skilled sculptors. The cathedral of Chartres, he thought the best monument of Gothic architecture of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries...
...German language, or even German literature, but to give our students a true conception of what Germany stands for in modern civilization, what her ideals have been, what she has contributed to the world's best intellectual possessions. For this purpose books alone do not suffice. It was thought that this country, of all countries, should possess a German Museum in the wider sense of the word, since the great majority of the American people are of Germanic origin, and it is here that in modern homes descendants of all Germanic tribes have met on a common ground and carried...