Word: placing
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...first place, particular attention must be paid to the heart: if you have no heart, you cannot possibly become a poet. You must have a poet's heart, too, - different from all other hearts. This is the most difficult part of the subject, and is apt to discourage beginners. Again, it is important to "have loved and lost." This is a comparatively easy matter. Another important point is the use of figurative language. To their reluctance to use more than one or two figures of speech in the same line may be attributed the bare, prosaic nature of the English...
...your Rig-Veda, or some other book in constant use, so that, at any moment you will be able to find the proper word. [And here it should be remarked that, granted the word, you have the poem; for thought (that is, a concept) is entirely out of place in a work of the imagination.] There are other tables containing heroine's names, with appropriate rhymes; the list might be indefinitely extended: Mary, airy, fairy; Laura, saw her, adore her: Lucy, truce he, boozy; and so on, ad infinitum. It will also be noticed that one set of rhymes will...
...scrimmage takes place when the holder of the ball, being in the field of play, puts it down on the ground in front of him and puts it in play (while on side) by - 1st, kicking the ball; 2nd, by snapping it back with the foot. The man who first receives the ball from the snap-back shall be called a quarter-back, and shall not then rush forward with the ball under penalty of a foul...
...been raised to three dollars, since it will obviate the disagreeable necessity of assessing the old members every year. As yet nothing definite has been arranged about a meeting with Yale, but the Association is doing all that lies in its power to have the meeting take place next spring on Jarvis Field. We wish the Association every success in the arrangement of this meeting, and assure it of the cordial co-operation of all the students...
...have finished the score for the music of the first chorus. The choruses will all be sung, and perhaps the dance which accompanied the singing will be attempted also. The seats will be taken from the floor of Sanders Theatre in order that the chorus may take its place there. Mr. Riddle has already begun the no small task of committing the many hundred lines which fall to Oedipus. It is very gratifying that such an undertaking should have been begun under so good auspices, and with so much enthusiasm. It should have the thorough commendation of all lovers...