Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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There is also a superfluity of figurative language in some poems which is sometimes so frequent as to obscure rather than to illustrate the thought. Being struck by a particularly poetical idea, the author writes a poem to display it, but commonly the thought which constitutes the subject is contained in two lines, and the rest of the poem is filled with metaphor and figurative expressions. It seems quite possible that short poems might be written wholly without such...
...receipt of the Forest and Stream, a weekly paper under the charge of Charles Hallock, author of the Fishing Tourist. Its columns, as its name indicates, are devoted largely to the sports of the forest and stream, and in this line furnish the best reading possible. General sporting intelligence, however, also finds a place, and in a much more attractive and refined form than in any other American publication...
...person referred to - not by name - has since made it clear to us that we did him an injustice in charging him with being the author of the objectionable paragraph in the Advertiser, on which we commented. We are sorry for our mistake, and can only say, in excuse, that we had strong reasons to suppose we were right...
...more in the hands of graduates. The little Record is thus left the sole undergraduate organ. The best article in the Courant is the one on the Iconoclast. It demolishes that crazy sheet pretty thoroughly. We give a specimen: "The article on base ball is marvellously weak. The author has been so kind as to sum up his argument in syllogistic form, as follows: 'All men want to go to Skull and Bones; playing ball will not take them; hence, men will not play ball to get there.' Now there are only three flaws in this argument: The major premise...
...suggestion was made in one of the daily papers last summer, that to study these currents and use them was a great science, and whichever crew used head-work enough to avail itself of them ought to have the benefit. The author of that suggestion must have forgotten that the positions of the crews at the start are given out by lot, and I hope that he does not accuse any of his friends of using head-work or management in the drawing of places...