Word: afield
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with Lampy's habitual failings. If jokes are to appear once in so often, one cannot wait for them to "just grow" like Topsy; they must be manufactured. If there is little to suggest them, they must be forced. If there is dearth of local picturesqueness, they must go afield to life in general. Moreover, it is only fair to the present number to admit that there are some good touches among the wealth of the commonplace. "Phrases from Novels" (p. 200), the dernier cri of the Freshman's welcome home (p. 206), the limerick about the Freshman's quandary...
...show haste, carelessness, and a willingness to be content with a product far short of that of which they are capable. And may it not also be asked. do those who write about college life endeavor to see penetratingly before they write? We do not need to go far afield for models. Flandrau's "Harvard Episodes," although dealing, as he says, with but a small corner of a very big place, show a keenness of insight which the undergraduate writer, even though he may not attain quite to it, would do well to strive after
Harvard Natural History Society. Protection of our Native Flora. Professor R. T. Jackson. Nodules on the Roots of Leguminous Plants. Mr. J. H. Robinette, Assistant in Agriculture, Bussey Institution. Notes on Birds Afield. Mr. H. S. Deming. Some Suggestions Resulting from the Scientific Work of the Baldwin-Ziegler North Polar Expedition. Mr. E. B. Baldwin, Leader of the Expedition. Room 6 of the Union, 8 p. m. Open to members of the University. Union tickets of Secretary...
...verse, "The Lost Glade," by R. W. R., is melodious and delicate in phrasing. "Josua's Philosophy," a New England dialect-verse is rather too rough even for dialect. "The Concord Turnpike," Allan Tierney, has at least the merit of not going far afield for its subject...