Search Details

Word: uses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...overdue. It should have been struck earlier, but unfortunately was not. It is no defence of other universities which have made muzzles and forced them upon the mouths of professors that they preached indefensible doctrines. The thing that is more indefensible than the teaching of indefensible doctrines is the use of force to prohibit the preaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As to Unmuzzled Professors. | 11/10/1916 | See Source »

...great annoyance to readers of library books is to find margins and type itself covered with humorous inscriptions. There seems to be a species of inexpensive humor which delights in ornamenting books that other men must use. Perhaps these significant underlinings, obliterations and witty marginal notes are put down in a spirit of self-exploitation. If so, the budding jokers would serve their own ends better by accompanying each brilliant jest with their signature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PREDATORY HUMOR | 11/9/1916 | See Source »

...called for at the H. A. A. during the five days preceding the game. The game this year being in the Yale Bowl, the limit on the number of seats which may be applied for will be four instead of two, and they need not be for "personal use". Applications for single seats, however, will be given preference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE APPLICATIONS CLOSE TODAY | 11/9/1916 | See Source »

Tickets assigned on student applications must be called for at the H. A. A. during the five days preceding the game. Since the game this year is in the Yale Bowl, the limit on applications will be four seats instead of two, and they need not be for "personal use." Applications for single seats, however, will be given preference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Apply for Yale Seats by Tomorrow | 11/8/1916 | See Source »

...Cowley's lines "To a Girl I Dislike" furnish an admirable example of the proper use of vers libre, and all in all the best in the number. In the light of the title the whole might be more subtly forceful without the last two lines, for they are distinctly anticlimatic. Mr. Garrison's venture into formless verse is likewise successful, but the other two representatives of this school were better undone...

Author: By P. W. Thayer ., | Title: Advocate Filled With Good Poetry | 11/8/1916 | See Source »

Previous | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | Next