Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...current issue of Harper's Weekly a Harvard graduate makes some suggestions for improving the game of foot ball which are worth more than passing attention. Some of these suggestions commend themselves at once to any lover of the game; others are radical, would necessarily greatly affect the character of the game, and can be discussed intelligently only by men who have had long experience as players and by careful students of the game. One of the latter class is the suggestion to separate the rush lines by a space of three or four feet at every scrimmage. As explained...
...Harvard man who has in him the slightest love of nature will take the keenest interest. In this delightful book, Mr. Bolles gives us "the chronicles of a stroller in New England from January to June" which embody in some twenty-six chapters the observations of a thorough Nature-lover who turns his back on his comfortable Cambridge home and cheerful back-log fire on many a day, when the lazily-inclined would hesitate about going out, and spends it in studying animal life within a couple of hours' walk of Cambridge...
...stars moving with in evitable accuracy or a day of sunlight or one of clouds and wind are too common, not for a man who has opened his eyes to the infinite System, but for one who takes it as a matter of course. In sum, a true lover of nature becomes in some degree a lover of God. If he wearies of dry doctrines and explanations and feels that he can ascribe the constant display of intelligence at work, net only in sky and stars, but in his own heart, only to a divine Intelligence, he has won from...
...Dark" and "The Lighthouse of Villefranche" seem to us to be the best. The former exhibits an energy and vividness in direct contrast with its author's other sketch in the number, "Old Sam," being as it is a portrayal of the thoughts and sufferings of a disappointed lover about to commit suicide. "The Lighthouse of Villefanche" has a strength of diction which is well-suited to the dramatic scenes which the sketch portrays...
...Quincey," a paper of literary biography containing unpublished letters of the poet and the opium-eater: one of Wordsworth's to the young De Quincey is particularly worthy of attention as containing excellent advice to youth, advice which he gives in simplicity and tender apprehension, as one lover of nature and virtue speaking to another, advice which is applicable quite as much in our own day as it was in the early part of the century...