Word: vulgarisms
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...first editorial article in the Advocate of October 24 pleads for two weeks recess at Christmas; the second expounds the value of keeping certain hours sacred to study. Both are good-humored. Both are persuasive also; though the first suggests belief in the vulgar error that work is evil, and the second treats as a discovery what every sensible schoolboy knows. "The better plan is to have times appointed for study as for other pursuits," is more nearly worth saying in Harvard College than it ought to be. "Time passed with a book is not always passed in grasping ideas...
...presenting this play, the emphasis will be placed on those qualities in the play which will tend to bring out its pretty atmosphere and charm rather than on those of vulgar farce as has usually been the case with the few earlier revivals...
...reported of Bracton how he said upon one day in summer, employing tempore abstraction is the vulgar tongue: "Vel Giantes vel Athleticos, Play Ball!" whereupon Coke maketh this pregnant note, as he well sayeth; "Mong chapoc este dans li cercle...
...disciple of the doctrine thinks himself freed from the truth that morality has any relation to art. A pure-souled idealist like Shelley could depart from traditional codes of morals and make for himself a new code that was yet noble. But Shelley escaped, in his poetry, from the vulgar details of life into an ideal world inhabited by ideal beings whose childlike vision was as pure as his. Even he could not have purified such a situation as Mr. Carb conceives--but he never would have conceived...
...CRIMSON dinner President Lowell said, "I have a contempt for any young man who has not some of the seriousness of maturity about him...." We have not a doubt that the seriousness, and the ideas, too, are here, but they are as a rule cleverly concealed from the vulgar public eye, at least, so far as the College papers are concerned. With so many interesting problems about us, it is a pity that more men will not "come out of their shells" and express their ideas in print...