Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hidden by the insufficiency of the style. Some lines "To the Composite Photograph of the November Century" are very bright and introduce some neat plays on words. "La Corrida de Los Toros," a story of a bull-fight in South American, is well told and ends in quite dramatic fashion. It can hardly boast of much originality, however. "A Backward Glance" is very amusing. "Roses and Cypress" is a sympathetically told tale of the exciting love of a pretty Italian peasant girl and the misery it brought her. It smacks a little of the hero and Leander. One lays down...
...great value of the kind of elocutionary training which is given in the voluntary instruction has been proved beyond doubt. For those who are new to Cambridge ways, we may say that the method pursued by Mr. Hayes is removed, as for as possible, from the spread-eagle, oratorical fashion which is in vogue in so many institutions, and which has brought the study of elocution into much contempt. Mr. Hayes lays stress on enunciation and pronunciation and his aim is to make men speak distinctly and as perfectly as possible. Those who wish to pursue this work will meet...
...mysteries of the new life before them. Of late, the old customs of a rush, a foot-ball game, or a tug-of-war, all of which had their days of supremacy at Harvard, have been superceded by a new and more civilized observance. It has now become the fashion for the members of the leading sophomore society to issue invitations to the freshmen who are considered likely to respond, requesting them to furnish "punch" on Monday night to the sophomore class. Many freshmen, new to' Harvard customs, know no better than to accept the invitation, and when they view...
...places. Mr. T. S. Perry has unearthed a new god in the person of Ebenezer Jones, for whose poems he wishes us to make a place, even if we have to thrust aside "some of his more successful rivals, who are admired simply because they happen to be the fashion." Mr. Perry is an eloquent and skillful advocate, but we must not forget that "fashion" in such matters is usually right: if it makes a favorite of one poet, it is because he has something to say or, at least, says nothing in an attractive manner; if it disregards another...
...gained that there was an imperative duty to make the plate, and it seems they succeeded in this. Although the nine have been heavily handicapped by the lateness of the season in Cambridge, they have made the most of every opportunity and have opened the championship series in a fashion which recalls the victories of the spring of '85. Care and enthusiasm will bring about ultimate success...