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Word: utters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Advocate or Crimson editor into angry convulsions. "The Morality of Ancient Philosophy," "Imagination, as Affecting the Abstruse Studies," "Uses of Literary History,"-think of it, gentlemen! And yet such writers as J. F. Clarke and F. H. Hedge, even in their college days, did not lack entertaining thoughts to utter on these and similar subjects. Dr. Holmes had not then given out his chilling dictum that "Knowledge, like timber, should not be much used till seasoned," and students were not, therefore, half-ashamed to have thoughts on such subjects and to speak them out. But then, as Snodkins holds, there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 3/8/1882 | See Source »

...first mention of aestheticism in the Bible is not when Balaam's ass was made to(o) utter, but more primevally - when the procession of the animals entering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/23/1882 | See Source »

Merrivale's "Cynic," although a well written play from a literary point of view, has been an utter failure as a dramatic work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL. | 2/21/1882 | See Source »

...Nation, which has the advantage in forming its opinion of being on the ground and of having heard Oscar Wilde in his Chickering Hall speech, devotes one of its subtile and caustic satires to Oscar's utter annihilation. It says: "As a man of the world, he knows that the true way to attract attention to poetry is to shock people's sense of decency, * * * and that a very good substitute for fame is the notoriety attracted by silliness. * * * What he has to say is not new, and his extravagance is not extravagant enough to amuse the average American audience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/16/1882 | See Source »

...thought that our recent editorial on Memorial Hall would save us from all future persecution. But, alas for the vanity of human wishes! Our long-buried friend, Pro Bono Publico, has arisen from his grave to utter a sepulchral note of warning. To give peace once more unto his harrowed soul, to let him again know the undisturbed sleep of the tomb, we have given place to his communication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/11/1882 | See Source »

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