Word: set
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...good old days when, if I may trust tradition, a cask containing a quantity of good cheer from a neighboring distillery (Medford, so saith the legend) was set up in the middle of the Yard, where the weary and footsore might refresh body and soul, are gone. "Cultchar" did this, and probably to excessively great development of the aesthetic on one side and too little on the other, much of the present obfuscation is due. From some quarters, now that the deed is done, much unavailing regret is heard in Seventy-seven. But never yet, as far as I have...
...Williams Athenoeum has a new board of editors, who set forth a very sensible credo on the objects of a college journal. They believe that "literary articles" should "occupy only a subordinate place." Unfortunately we find in the same issue an oration four and a half columns long on the "Historical Awakening Culminating in the Reformation." The Athenoeum should take as its motto, "Video meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor." We must acknowledge, however, that the oration is worth publishing...
...base-ball match on Monday last between the Sophomore and Freshman Nines resulted in a victory for the former by a score of 19 to 10. The Freshmen plainly showed great want of practice; but they appear to be a stocky set of men, and now that the field back of Lawrence is no longer occupied by the Foot-ball Team, the Freshmen should take advantage of it to play regularly...
...same level during the feather, and again during the stroke. No. 5's oar is not faced over on the catch, and so cuts under without getting a firm hold on the water; and his back and shoulders (and also No. 4's) should be kept more firmly set and rigid. All superfluous body motions exhaust the strength of the men who make them, render it more difficult for those behind them to keep time, and disturb the trim of the boat...
Here, then, in five lines out of eight, is a series of radical blunders in quantity and formation, every one of which requires no further reading than the first book of the Aeneid to set right. After that, considerations of the general style, transference of thought, building up of sentences, are superfluous. There is so much fatally bad that it is not worth asking if there is anything good...