Word: uses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Most attractive, on the whole, among the sonnets I find Mr. Cowley's except "From the Diary of a Restoration Gentleman," which successfully imprisons within fixed form the loose and rambling idiom of Samuel Pepys. Some change of the second line which would avoid the double use in the rhyme position of the word "approach" would leave a sonnet of memorable power, beauty, and satirical point. Although Mr. MacVeagh's "Sonnet" is strongly reminiscent of Mr. E. A. Robinson's poetry, it is interesting and impressive in and for itself. In Mr. Norris's sonnet on the sonnet...
...use of Massachusetts Hall by the R. O. T. C. recalls the fact that this is not the first time that soldiers have been there. "After the battle of Lexington when troops were collected it was given over to the occupancy of the soldiers. But the soldiers were of the same stock as the scholars, and the humanizing associations of the place were not lost upon them. The rooms in Massachusetts served as barracks until March, 1776, when the troops were withdrawn from Cambridge. A committee was appointed soon afterward by the general court to estimate the damages, which remained...
...Eckfeldt '17 was on the ice again, but was unable to use his stick. It is doubtful if his injured shoulder will have healed sufficiently by Saturday to permit of his taking part in the Yale game...
Officers of the University should enter at the north door of the Chapel and students at the south, unless accompanied by friends, when they should use the west door. The gallery is open to the public...
...only this prohibition, in a slightly different form, which Germany seeks to exercise upon American shipping. As regards the use of mines, both belligerents are now obviously on an equal footing, as any specific warning in connection with the use of this species of weapon is, of course, out of the question. As regards the employment of her submarines, Germany, instead of withholding her threat until the moment of capture, as is the British practice, gives warning in advance that any vessel entering the prescribed area does so at its own risk. At the same time she mitigates the rigor...