Word: whose
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first half mile '96, whose stroke had been raised, was leading '94 by half a boat length, '95 had dropped a length in the rear of '94, and the freshmen, who had been steered out of the course, seemed to have no special interest in the race...
...nation, and is founded on moral principles quite as important as those underlying the struggle for Civil Service Reform. The welfare of society has been at times considered the object of all government. It is the avowed object of a political party. And, when a man in whose hands the welfare of the people has been entrusted by a great commonwealth, can be persuaded to come here and explain the principles and methods by which some of the greatest intellects of the age hope to perpetuate that welfare, there are some who feel considerable bitterness at his exclusion, and would...
...better game both in the field and the bat than the juniors, but they made errors at critical moments and did not bunch their hits well. For ninety-four Gale pitched a good game and was well supported by Cabot. Dodge and Adams played the best for ninety-five, whose weakest spot was at shortstop, where Cassatt made four errors in one inning, letting in three runs. The score...
...much of a pedagogue, and is apt to forget that poetry instructs not by precept and inculcation, but by hints and indirections and suggestions, by inducing a mood rather than by enforcing a principle or a moral. He sometimes impresses our fancy with the image of a schoolmaster whose class-room commands an unrivalled prospect of cloud and mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes, they had never seen; makes them feel what...
...made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere as that of Dante-in some senses as national as his, but which fails of effect because it is deficient in art; whose images are as vivid as Dante's, but differ in this that they are all presented on the plane of the actual and not the ideal, that the painting is Dutch and not Italian. The poem I speak of is Piers Ploughman's Visions...