Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...condition of our nine at present is anything but an enviable one. The truth of the old saw that misfortunes never come singly is now only too apparent to the Columbia College Base-Ball Association. Columbia no longer holds her own in the College League, having finally, and irrevocably, severed her connection with it by resigning. There seemed to the management no other course to pursue under the circumstances, considering the generally demoralized condition of the men on the nine and the impracticability of attempting to get together a nine from the men still remaining about college...
...narrative form, also, that there is only now and then occasion for anything more than the plain, straightforward, vigorous style than counts for so much in the admirableness of the whole work; but when there is occasion for a dramatic scene, it is always drawn with power and truth and (notwithstanding the appearance sometimes of gracefulness sacrificed for strength) secundum artem. In fact, the novel is sterling throughout. It is good in plot and workmanship, and in the portrayal and conception of character; it is natural and lifelike, and it is interesting. It is all this not now and then...
...John C. Ropes contributes a very valuable paper entitled, "A Few Words About Secession," in which he shows that if the South can prove the truth of their premises about the sovereignty of the States that ratified the constitution, their stand in seceding would be justifiable. The paper is well worth a careful perusal, as it throws much new light on this well-worn theme. "Nature's Poem" is a delicate bit of verse, and expresses a pretty idea in highly artistic form. Mr. Palmer has also added much interest to this number by a well-written sketch...
Everybody must have been struck at one time or another by the truth of some of the facts about athletes stated in the current number of the "Nineteenth Century...
...brilliant abilities lost the presidency. Seward who was sure of the nomination failed, and Lincoln, who sought only to be true to his political principals, was brought to the place where God's best thought for him and the country was made fruitful. Illustrations of this same truth can be drawn from literature. Byron refused to bow to the moral order. He tried to reign supreme in the kingdom of the poetry of pleasure. The world has begun to pass him by. Milton faithfully devoted himself to the service of his country. He would write to express the truth...