Word: eared
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Although it was found impossible to decide on a permanent schedule for the future on account of the many yearly obligations of the various colleges, a definite schedule was arranged for the Yale crew this year, and this did much to ear up the difficulties of the other colleges concerned. The Yale schedule is follows...
...style is not wholly suited to it and the insertion in the wrong places of such asides as "Pass the matches" and "please, the matches" irritates the reader beyond words. O. Henry might have told the story in such a manner and still have been effective; Mr. Rogers' ear is not yet quite sensitive enough to get the effect he so obviously tries...
...what he is sending and whether all points are getting it. Accordingly, the usual sounder, which is an instrument about 5x3 inches in size, is replaced by a miniature sounder not bigger than a cubic inch. This is placed with an earpiece which rests over the sending operator's ear like a telephone head receiver. The operator thus hears the click of his instrument which is inaudible to others...
...original, just as an orchestral theme played on a single instrument recalls the full strains of the orchestra to one who is familiar with the symphony. For one who has not this background it has no such suggestion; yet if he is possessed of a fairly quick ear he may be able later to whistle enough of the tune to pass; and passing is the "sine quanon" of undergraduate existence. It is surprising that no undergraduate seems to have discovered the beauties of Gothic literature, and asked the Faculty to enrich the curriculum by offering a course in Gothic literature...
...story has all the ear-marks of the best mystery novel. Indeed it impressed us so much that whenever we see some particularly benevolent and distinguished professor strolling through the Yard we wonder involuntarily whether he has engaged in applying his knowledge of science to divide the remains of some unfortunate creditor into its chemical clements...