Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...columns the medium for their announcements. Its first function is to give the news. No consideration of advertising should encroach on the news. The chief effort of the editors should be to collect as much real news as possible and to present it in the most compact and orderly fashion. This seems a truism; but anyone who has read the CRIMSON for many years, will agree that, like other truisms, it needs to be constantly repeated. For there is too seldom issued a copy of any college paper which may serve as a model in the three requisites--completeness, accuracy...
...domain of historical writing alike in Europe and in America. So enormous has become the store of materials now available to the historian and so insistent the demand that no important part of this shall be disregarded, that an individual writer who nowadays aspires to deal in authoritative fashion with all the phases and periods of the nation's history may indeed be accounted unduly ambitious. The historical student of our day and generation may well find in the mastery of a single period or a single phase the profitable employment of an industrious lifetime. Hence it has appeared...
...London in 1614, and for several years afterward was one of the popular places of the London stage. It is characteristic of Jonson's style, both in its realism and its character portrayal, in which it is especially strong. Its aim is to present in humorous and burlesque fashion the life and customs of the people. Like many other plays of the period, "Bartholomew Fair", contains many references to contemporary writers and playwrights, and the customary humorous flings at the Puritans and other strict sects. Though there is a fair plot to the play, it depends for its effect mainly...
...speaking commenced at 9 o'clock, when President Eliot rose to announce the first speaker. In his preliminary address President Eliot spoke in part as follows: "This dinner was planned and carried into execution by the Harvard Memorial Society, an organization which endeavors to commemorate in fitting fashion all the occasions worthy of notice in connection with this University. A Memorial Society! What a prodigious memorial John Harvard has in this University, which men have raised here on his foundation. The young scholar, seven years at Cambridge University, coming to America as a young, untried minister, dying within...
...sided game Saturday at New Haven, the Yale football team overwhelmed Holy Cross, winning by the score of 52 to 0. The game was marked by many open plays and long runs by the Yale backs who bowled over their tacklers in easy fashion. It was no test of Yale's strength, however, for Holy Cross was so weak that even with a team of third string men Yale was able to score almost at will...