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...those employed by the most commonplace writer. Words must give the thought its visible form. So the man who aspires to write with grace and distinction tries to create an artificial separation. It should last long enough to give him the feeling that he is working in a medium as different from the speech of the man in the street as a dry-point is different from a circus billboard...
...CRIMSON prize essay contest provides the medium for students to express their suggestions...
...failed to dent the Crimson torward wall, and on the following play the Princeton backfield mixed its signals and the ball sailed over the goal-line, where Crawford overwhelmed by four Crimson linemen, managed to recover the pigskin. Two points were, however, added to the University total through the medium of a safety...
...simpler fundamentals that are necessarily neglected in a composition course--a place where a student could discover the way of putting a story together, the method of "doing" an editorial, and of seeing his results in print. This mission the reviewer felt, the Advocate was fulfilling. Here was a medium, he felt as he read the paper, through which students were learning the art of saying something in a readable way, were exploring the intricacies of essay writing, discovering the methods of story writing and the subtleties of poetry--and doing it, on the whole, very well
...Bennett's medium is not the X-ray, which penetrates its subject and discoveds unguessed-at causes, nor is it the telescope, which brings out the concomitant phenomena of an object, relegating that object to its proper environment. He depends solely upon the misroscope for his effect. "Lord Raingo" is a meticulous examination of multitudinous minutiae, and little more than that. The Bennett of old was wont to sport with his realistic characers by plunging them into romantic situations, as in "The Grand Babylon Hotel," or "Buried Alive." His latest effort, however, deals with a prosy old codger who maunders...