Word: vast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This is my point--the vast and varied absurdities of the two-season rule, as now maintained. When this law was first made, it was tagged with the statement that it was reasonable because it would affect so few. As a matter of fact it affected a great many. Probation itself became blunted and worm-eaten by this idiotic rule. Does a man who has made a successful record in the fall in both sports and studies find himself better off than his neighbor who has competed to the detriment of his courses? Not a whit. Doesn't it seem...
...verse much might be said. It is marked by individual, poetic yearning and by meagre achievement. Thus "Browning," by B. G. Brawley, is vast in its way, but gets its being from a figure obviously more suited to Swinburne--one of mingled sea and wind. "Sea-Poems," by J. H. Wheelock, are scarcely more successful, owing to the writer's tendency to be, fussy with his imagery, and to gasp whenever the mood requires powerful inarticulacy. "Nineveh," by J. S. Miller, Jr., has an ingenious conceit, well worked...
...authorities are really in earnest and mean that speculation shall stop, the blacklist must be published. A vast amount of effort was expended this year in detecting speculation, and if it is not to be wasted, the results must be made known. The moral effect of merely depriving a man of his privileges is no longer sufficient. The only way in which those who contemplate using privileges for personal gain can be brought to their senses is by publicly disgracing those already caught...
...looking, but whom he had hitherto failed to find. The expectation of the serious part of the community today, from the research of the scholar, the insight of the philosopher, and the vision of the prophet working upon the world laid open in the life of the saint, is vast, and it may be, that the Harvard Theological Review will answer this expectation in a new and in a great...
...awakening of the public conscience and its recognition of the duty of the community to its poorest and weakest members." The awakening has commenced, it is domesticating a conscience in public life, but one that is still a crude ill-educated groping thing. It will stand a vast amount of abuse, of ridicule, of intolerance, but when to these is added insolence, and the public sense of decency is violated by official exploitation of criminal license, it becomes an avalanche and temporarily overwhelms its oppressors. Like an avalanche, however, it possesses no constructive power and when the old forces that...