Word: truest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bestow on these translations, is the desire which grows in the reader of seeing all of Catullus works rendered so well. This essay and its precursor in a number of last year, are a worthy addition to the small stock of literature that is growing up around Rome's truest lyric poet...
...turn out to be flat, and puny copies of what has been much better said. Yet, if we have not the highest forms of inspiration, we can make light and graceful verse from the light and graceful fancies which belong to our time of life. Such writing is the truest expression of our personality...
...poorest picking is, on the whole, in the Harvard papers - the Advocate and the Lampoon. The Crimson hardly comes under the head of a literary production, but as a daily, is one of two, and only two, in the college sense of the word. The Advocate is the truest literary production of college journalism in our exchange basket. A little heavy for a b1-weekly, perhaps, but when it is considered that Harvard is apparently without a literary monthly, this is a fault in the right direction. All departments are good, but the poetical would perhaps be bettee...
...class-mates. His life has been before us day by day, full of earnest zeal and of patient devotion to his studies ; and although his character has been thus unfolded in his life, we feel that in the contemplation of his heroic death it may find its truest interpretation. It is thus with mingled feeling that the news of his death has come upon us. We rejoice that he who has departed first from among us has left us the example of an upright life and of an unflinching death. At the same time we feel deep sorrow...
...will accept its responsibilities when offered them. Already the HERALD thinks that it remarks a change for the better in this respect in the general college sentiment. For this reason it believes that a frank statement of its position will result for the best. A college paper in the truest sense is distinctly the property of the entire college, and responsibility for its success should rest equally with all the students, the college exercising care in seeing that through competition it may be properly represented in its board of editors. The HERALD therefore places itself in the hands...