Word: well
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will be "Welding the Nation." Another book by Professor Hart, which will be published shortly, is "Colonial Children," the first volume of a series of "Source Readers of American History." This volume is intended for children, and the extracts illustrate many entertaining facts of colonial life and customs, as well as some of the most interesting episodes of colonial history. The extracts are rewritten in modern form, so as to offer no puzzles of grammar or spelling, but preserves the racy and often humorous flavor of the old writers. Special pains has been taken to select extracts which will...
...Edward L. Atkinson followed with an address on the necessity of mingling with the various absorbing interests of the University, a manfully religious churchmanship, maintained outwardly as well as inwardly by purity of motive, courage, and spiritual endeavor...
...first issue of the Lampoon well describes its purposes by the editorial statement that "without the Freshmen Lampy would have nothing to talk about in its first number." There is little that would interest the upper classmen where conventionalities are so predominant...
...abundance of words. The third editorial, on last year's victories, like the others, has no spontaneity and is neither good nor bad. The specimen lecture again appears under the heading of "Phonographic Marvels" and in this case is an excellent summary of peculiarities which are, however, well known. The "By the Way" is the wittiest piece in the number, and "The America's Cup," for a sustained effort, is very readable...
...advocates for good roads" would be better placed in any other paper than the Lampoon where a collegiate air is perhaps essential. The pictures of the Yard on the nights of the Sophomore-Freshman rushes are executed with skill, especially the first one, and the small drawings could well be increased in number as they contain much merit...