Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Lampoon which will be put on sale this evening contains an entertaining aggregation of Freshman jokes and even one thrust at the swaggering Sophomore with his new pipe. The centre page well illustrates a real phase of Freshman life and some of the other sketches are creditable. Perhaps the most successful attempt is a take-off on the poetry of Kipling and his admirers. Several stray hits are scattered throughout the number and a wandering member of the University is welcomed back and his exploits rehearsed in a manner truly dazzling and wonderful, but scarcely appreciable by the college...
Some verses entitled "Rudyard Kipling," by J. A. Macy is at all events acknowledged imitation, and equally candid treatment would substitute the title "Anthony Hope" for "Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them," which is contributed by R. Clapp. The latter is a brief episode successfully worked up, and the author has succeeded in catching something of Hope's freshness and vigor, which partially atones for lack of originality...
...have the first few years of his life after leaving college severely injured. If the authorities wish to weed out from the list of its members those who are dishonest the best way, the just way, is to expel the offenders at once and for all, but not to thrust their faults upon the whole University and upon the outside world into which they must enter...
Flying buttresses were found necessary to receive the thrust of this system of vaulting. They were at first rather awkwardly constructed but in the thirteenth century became more graceful and ornate. The foliate ornamentation of the Gothic capitol rivals in beauty of line and surface any of the Greek forms, and the sculpture, though inclined to the grotesque, resembles the Greek in some of its methods...
What must have been his emotions? He came to bring them the Gospel and they thrust him out. Yet this is only typical of his general treatment. We find nothing but wonder and sorrow that they should so misjudge him. There is no trace of resentment, though...