Word: distinguished
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lower classes, to those who hunger for excitement and glory in high colored descriptions, has outgrown respectable limits. Public decency calls for a reform. The prosperity of many papers that live by telling the truth in a truthful and respectable manner, shows that there are classes that can distinguish between journalism and newspaperism, and that a financial existence does not necessarily depend on loud type and high sounding distorting headings. The public press should study to elevate public taste and not lower its own standing by catering to the morbid desires of Tom, Dick, and Harry...
...extent attend this process, but the first and best function of criticism is to recognize merits not defects. It surely cannot be denied that the selective power developed by practice in criticism is of the highest value in the subsequent development of the creative power: a writer who cannot distinguish the good from the bad in other writers, will scarcely succeed in producing good work alone in his own literary efforts. Experience is a good teacher, I admit, but observation is of no less value in literary work...
Another day in recitation, the class failed to distinguish clearly enough between the uses of the Greek negative particles. One after another gave up in turn, till the question was put to a man who happened to remember the distinction as given in the Professor's Greek Grammar. Rising in his place, he gave the paragraph word for word. Professor Sophocles, with a look of satisfaction, settled back in his chair and growled out, "There, that sounds like something...
...congratulated upon Mr. Irving's acceptance of the invitation to speak before the college. Mr. Irving is so wellknown to Harvard men, that he needs no particular introduction to their notice. Both by his long experience upon the stage, and the scholarly attributes of mind which distinguish him as an actor and manager, he is pre-eminently qualified to speak upon the subject of Dramatic Art. The college will await his coming with interest...
...dormitory numbered 1 Holyoke street, has been named Hilton House, to distinguish it from West Hilton, and Old Hilton...