Word: wording
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...were to express in a word the predominant feature of the present issue of the Advocate, that word would be spontaneity. On one hand, spontaneity best characterizes the wide variety of subject-matter, the liberality of form and the exuberance of spirit, which are throughout apparent. On the other hand, spontaneity may account for a quantity of old-fashioned fiction out of proportion to its merit, and one or two lapses in the choice of words...
Generosity is always more pleasant when accompanied by an entertainment. The Bazaar furnishes that in abundance. In this country the word "bazaar" not infrequently conjures up remembrances of parish houses and Ladies Aid Societies. But the festivals in the Arabian nights and the great Eastern bazaars will more nearly approach the exhibition in Mechanics Building tonight. Articles of every description will be on sale--and there will always be a fair exchange for your money. The elaborate exhibition of war relics and the reproduction of a British trench, arranged by Captain Thwaites, to say nothing of the trench-climbing "tank...
...comes word from the Pacific Coast that through the generosity of some wealthy citizens of San Francisco a hundred undergraduates of Leland Stanford have volunteered for a half-year's service in the war zone. It is not merely the number of the volunteers which is remarkable, but the spirit they have shown in heeding what is a universal call...
...small college can appreciate the value of a close relationship between professor and student. As one of our eminent Harvard graduates has said, "It is worth all the school's cost if the long discipline brings each one of us into living touch with one real instructor, one whose word reaches the soul and creates that hunger of the mind whose satisfaction is our education." Such friendship is of mutual benefit, for it ennobles the student and it humanizes the instructor...
...must manage, of course, to get back in their old football form as Yale has done, but Yale had suffered more from Harvard than Annapolis has yet suffered from West Point, and there is plenty of time. Congratulations to the Army and to the Yale men, but not a word of commiseration for Harvard and the Navy. There were two fair contests and the best men won. New York Times...