Word: verdict
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Preparedness Parade on May twenty seventh and at the Regimental Review on Memorial Day, the men in the Harvard Regiment will take what amounts to their final military examination. Past performances will not count in the opinion of the examiner, or, in other words, the public, for the verdict will be passed solely on these final exhibitions...
...first draft of 'The Box Tunnel' is accompanied by two letters, expressing his appreciation of the fact that the Boston firm had 'taken up an author on your own judgment instead of waiting until sixteen old women had waited for some echo and echoed it and called it their verdict.' Emerson is represented by 'The Titmouse' and also by the loose and printer-thumbed sheets of an article hurriedly written in the hours following the arrival of the news of the Emancipation Proclamation...
...impression of Richard Henry Dana is that he was a man of one book, 'Two Years Before the Mast.' Such impressions are not always infallible, and yet the offhand, instinctive judgment upon which they rest is usually right enough for all practical purposes. In Dana's case the popular verdict is not likely to be reversed. It is one of the ironies of literature that this son of a poet, inheriting so much that was finest in the old New England culture, a pupil of Emerson, trained at Harvard, toiling gallantly in a great profession, a public-spirited citizen...
...beginning of their Junior year before going on probation. This option is also granted at all subsequent examinations to students who are on probation. The written examination affords a student an absolutely fair trial before he is placed on probation, a student may appeal from the examiner's verdict. The examination will be of the same grade of difficulty as the oral, but consisting of a unit, such as an extensive, well-rounded chapter or episode, which need not be translated word for word, but closely paraphrased into equivalent English...
...best yet" means a great deal as applied to the theatricals of the Pi Eta Club, and yet it is a verdict pronounced with emphasis by those who saw the first public performance of "Robin the Robber" last night. The play has every element of originality, wit, and sustained action that makes a musical comedy good instead of mediocre--or worse. If there is one weakness which has characterized many previous plays of the club, it is the lack of a substantial basic plot. One cannot criticise the present production upon that ground. The music is well written; several...