Word: trenchant
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...this restraint exerted by the "Board in Control of Student Publications" has not been continued to this one case, or even one paper In 1921 the trenchant exposures of a certain evil and irreverent student were forbidden in all university publications. Later an editor of the "Magazine" was taken to task severely on account of a favorable review of that iniquitous journal, "The Nation." And it is undeniable that the editor of the "Gargoyle" was threatened with expulsion if he continued to print jokes on prohibition or co-eds,--which seems to be the one really judicious bit of censorship...
...feels very "knowing", and not a little thrilled at the experience. Mr. Lyons is a "collector of favor able British types", using favorable in the sense of correct and current. The new landed aristocracy, gross as beer barrels and uncouth as hedge hogs, comes in for a bit of trenchant panning. And the Horatio Bottomleys of Sussex are flayed with but little less vigour...
...author of the communication, "The True Scholar", charges the movement on behalf of "recognizing scholarship" with being characterized by the lack of "perfectly clear thinking", and also infers that the recognition of scholarship would not aid in stimulating its pursuit. It seems to me, in spite of this trenchant criticism, very sound reasoning that if scholarship is given the recognition which it justly deserves, equal to that granted to athletics and publications, the more enthusiastic men in college will aspire after it with the same spirit that prompts them to strive for either of the two leading roles of undergraduate...
...critic, he was ever impatient of those who use criticism as a substitute for the reading of the classics, and it is the glory of his criticism that he kept it ever an open door to the knowledge of literary masterpieces at first hand. He was a master of trenchant phraseology, but he never permitted epigram to degenerate into verbal trickery. Keenly satirical, he was in tolerant only of hypocrisy and the wealth of kindliness that lay behind the satire made him able to rebuke without bitterness. There was in his genius something of that universality which marks the truly...
...banal harmony of the pages, however, is occasionally interrupted. Mr. Babcock's tale, "And Then He Had Him," is a grateful relief in its simplicity, directness, and real point. The trenchant theatrical reviews at the end are so good as to arouse a desire that the signature W. C. B. might be substituted for cer- tain well-known initials in the critical columns of a certain Boston newspaper. Mr. Murdock's short poem, although it has its "amethyst and pearl," its "gold and blue," is inspired by true feeling and possesses true significance. Perhaps the best thing in the number...