Word: verbal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...other expressions. The weird, solemn picture in "The Caravan" is impressive, the wording is good (preponderance of monosyllables), and the vagueness gives the imagination free play. The interrogation points in the second and third stanzas should be omitted. The conception in "The Flower Stall" is good; the poem needs verbal revision. The sonnet entitled "Love and Fate" is worthy of praise for the correctness of its construction, the thought moving steadily and naturally to the culmination, and for the dignity of the language. A vigorous plea ("Yoke-fellows") for loyal service in the cause of the Ideal and a pithy...
...team that will mee Princeton in verbal combat this evening we extend our best wishes. Of recent years Princeton has assumed a position of practical leadership in the debating world--a position which for many years had been Harvard's undisputed right. We look forward to a renewal of the old prestige in this truly academic intercollegiate contest...
...Simonson '09, is very thoughtful but not thoroughly worked out. The author has not given Chesterton, the whole man. He recognizes the value, critical and philosophical, of many of Chesterton's paradoxes, but is inclined impulsively to give equal importance to all, including those which are mere exercises in verbal ingenuity. We read Chesterton with delight because of his manliness, because of his courage, because he has ideals; we honor him because he insists on the value of ideals and of faith as springs of action; because he would substitute for our modern, sentimental purposelessness the energy of a brave...
...reward in the achievement of a kind of sincerity not easily cultivated under anonymity. In his discussion of "Swinburne's Relation to the Poetry of the Immediate Past and Future" J. H. Wheelock '08 is not quite articulate and not always grammatical. He is touched with some of the verbal diseases that afflict the poet of his admiration--the excessive use of abstract terms, and the reluctance to tell us precisely and specifically what he is talking about. The wistful melody of the same contributor's verses have somewhat of this same defect of vagueness. H. Hagedorn...
...facts as stated by Clarkson are that on May 6, 1904, he signed a contract to play baseball during this season with the New York Americans, and on that day was paid a substantial sum, outside of his contract salary as an inducement to sign this contract. By a verbal agreement between Clarkson and the manager of the New York team his service with that team was not to begin until after the close of the college season. On these facts the Committee voted that Clarkson was not eligible to play on the nine...