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...advantage in that he can drop kick with some certainty. Robinson, quarter-back, is fast on his feet, and leads his team pretty well; but he seems to be very weak in handling punts. His judgment in the choice of plays is about on a par with the other players, but none of them are very clever...
...criticism of Marie Bashkirtseff's Journal, G.H. Montagu has met his baffling problem with great analytical power. He has put before us with much vividness the conflicting characteristics of a many-sided mind. His synthesis is not, however, on a par with his analysis...
...whole the success of the Weld crews this spring has been unprecedented. While the class races resulted in an unfortunate fiasco, the various crews had previously proved themselves to be very fast, and in the opinion of most coaches quite on a par with the regular class crews of previous years...
...establish peace between science and art, with scientific and artistic arrangement of material. He is endowed with an imagination which raises images, landscapes and people before the eyes of the reader. His histories where he describes events, paints scenes and outlines characters,- for instance, the "Conquete de l'Angleterre par les Normands" and "Recits Merovingiens,"- are very close in style to novels or epic poems...
Lamartine's style is immaterial and leaves to sentiment all of its natural purity. Lamartine is, therefore, for the French the poet, par excellence, and his poetry is the poetry of France par excellence...