Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last few days posts have been erected on the southern side of Holmes Field between the Law School and the Jefferson Physical Laboratory and between the grand stand and the eastern end of the laboratory. Upon these will be stretched a canvas fence during the baseball season. The open space on the western side of the field will be closed with a board fence...
...call it, has not flourished and does not flourish in England. English writers too often make their tales seem like chapters from a three volume novel, or at least like awkward attempts at the novellete. They should, on the contrary, restrict the time of the story to a short space, and nothing like development of character should be attempted. Conspicuous examples of the best sort of short stories observe this unity of character and give the reader a glimpse, a sketch, an episode, rather than any essay toward elaborate portrayal of persons or events. Thus, Mr. Hardy has been less...
...candidates for the lacrosse team practiced yesterday on the court in the rear of the gymnasium. The men lined up in two teams and as far as space would permit played a regular practice game. About twenty-five candidates were out, among them several who played on the team last year...
...inhabitants of a certain Hungarian village have of treating their shrews. These two articles and the latter of the "Two Sketches" are the only things that are worth reading in the number. None of the other contents has the slightest excuse for publication, except that of filling space...
...Honor," by Austin Corbin, Jr., is a decidedly clever essay, though one cannot help feeling that the cleverness is misapplied. The first two paragraphs and the last seem to be written in a serious mood and contain so much truth in such a small space that almost every sentence amounts to a truism. The rest of the essay is written in a sort of flippant, serio-comic vein, which is out of place. Honor is too grave a subject to be flippantly treated...