Word: write
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tell him more than maiden hand may write, though great...
...selection of the coach of last season's crew, I sat down and wrote out the very same ideas as now appear from Mr. C.'s pen, intending to send the article to one of the College papers; but I desisted for the reasons, first, that I could not write temperately concerning what I deemed stupid obstinacy on the part of Harvard boating-men; and, second, because I could not claim to have been a University oar. But now that the idol of the Harvard oar has received one square blow, I am tempted to endeavor to administer another, hoping...
DEAR JACK, - I am afraid that you are horribly incautious. When your taste happens to differ from that of most of your friends, you have no hesitation in writing about them in terms more forcible than complimentary; and the chances are that what you write so freely to me you sometimes say to them. If so, you must bid good by to that glorious popularity which is going to carry you through the world so beautifully. In certain classes of society a man who declares his friend to display a lack of elegance in taste is knocked down and kicked...
...that sort of thing, and I was never sorry for it. In case you should like to follow in my footsteps, I will give you one or two examples, by way of ending my letter. And as special examples are always more amusing, both to read and to write, than generalities, however glittering, I will stick to the theatre and to burlesque...
...connection with my class was interrupted last year by what the bible terms "a temporary separation from College." I have been obliged, therefore, to make up this year some of the work which I lost by this absence, and, among other things, to write a theme on one of the following subjects: "A Personal Experience," or "A Criticism on the Late Discussion." I thought over my eventful career, but could not recall any episode which seemed likely to edify my instructor, and so, although not knowing what the "Late Discussion" was about, I decided to take the second alternative...