Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then, naturally, in his poetry. It seems to me that the writer is a little too enthusiastic over his subject; that a poet whose work requires such a deliberate course of study and investigation before it can be appreciated, is not a poet in the true sense of the word. A true poet should make himself felt, should draw us to him, and not ask that we should go grubbing in his immense field of tares in order to find the few good seeds that some wind of chance may have scattered there. However, it is possible that our lack...
However much the name of "university" may be abused by being tacked on to so many institutions which smack more of the high school than the college, to such an extent indeed that the word "university" has fallen in part into ridicule, it cannot be denied that some of the seats of learning on this side of the ocean have as good a right to the title as their compeers across the sea. The progress of university life in all the larger colleges within the past decade has been striking, the broadening of the narrow views on educational affairs...
...usual. "A Mexican Village" is a fair bit of description of the placid life in the growing state of our neighbors. "John Bryant's Ride" is an unusually well written story. In a few lines a situation is very forcibly drawn. There is not a sentence nor a word too much; the movement of the story shows great vigor. "An Automaton" is a very remarkable study and deserves a careful perusal and thoughtful consideration. It is with no mean descriptive talent that the author has succeeded in tracing the various steps in the dulling of the college man's sensibilities...
...athletic men-as man to man-to have it remedied." That is the true solution; and, as Mr. Wendell says, nothing "can ever be gained by making an intelligent man conform to rules with which he does not agree!" The writer then deplores the use of the word "professionalism" as applied to dishonest practices, and holds that the faculty is unwise in forbidding all practice with professionals (in the proper sense of the word). We have in college a so-called "sporting element" which is really very deleterious to athletics. The point which Mr. Wendell makes here in regard...
...word to the freshmen. We have received several contributions from '91, but we want more. The time is not so far off when we shall take on our editorial board a member of the freshman class, provided anyone shall have shown himself proficient enough for the position. There is no reason why any one shall hold back from a feeling that he is unable to select any subject on which to write. The main requisite is for a man to write good, clear, forcible English; the rest will come with practice. As we have said before, editorials, front-page articles...