Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Dr. Crofters is too thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the essay to adopt guch violent tactics even of matters of controversial interest. There is, for example, almost no subject, outside of the Irish question, more likely to arouse latent passion that educational theory. Does our author vociferate that the...
What differentiates "The Dame School" from other collections of essays and makes Dr. Crofters more than "the Charles Lamb of America" can be realized more clearly, I think, in his last two papers. "The Unpreparedness of Liberalism" and "On the Evening of the New Day." Here be strikes out beyond...
Thus if you are akin to those who seek a "moral" in poetry and must squeeze a "philosophy" out of essays, you can obtain very satisfactory doctrine for a true liberal in the present day. And his doctrine, as Samuel Johnson said of Dr. Blair's "is the best limited...
At a late hour last night the CRIMSON, basing its judgment on an impartial investigation of the election, came to the conclusions offered elsewhere in the new columns. It based these upon a thorough examination and checking-up of the 304 original ballots cast, which were in the hands of...
The position of any man whose original standing in the election has been proved erroneous is hard; to him the nominating committee and its ballot counters own an apology. The stigma lies on the committee which allowed such a disgracefully careless accounting of the votes.