Word: utterance
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...Oxonian lately visiting Harvard expressed amazement at what seemed to him the utter disregard of the comfort of the student in the matter of food and in other respects. In case of sickness the student's position is simply wretched. Except some Gampish old bed-makers, apparently indebted for their position to their ugliness and squalor, not an attendant is visible between early one morning and early the next, and there is no kitchen whence a student can get as much as a bowl of soup or slice of bread and butter. The whole system, or rather want of system...
...Advocate or Crimson editor into angry convulsions. "The Morality of Ancient Philosophy," "Imagination, as Affecting the Abstruse Studies," "Uses of Literary History,"-think of it, gentlemen! And yet such writers as J. F. Clarke and F. H. Hedge, even in their college days, did not lack entertaining thoughts to utter on these and similar subjects. Dr. Holmes had not then given out his chilling dictum that "Knowledge, like timber, should not be much used till seasoned," and students were not, therefore, half-ashamed to have thoughts on such subjects and to speak them out. But then, as Snodkins holds, there...
...first mention of aestheticism in the Bible is not when Balaam's ass was made to(o) utter, but more primevally - when the procession of the animals entering...
Merrivale's "Cynic," although a well written play from a literary point of view, has been an utter failure as a dramatic work...
...Nation, which has the advantage in forming its opinion of being on the ground and of having heard Oscar Wilde in his Chickering Hall speech, devotes one of its subtile and caustic satires to Oscar's utter annihilation. It says: "As a man of the world, he knows that the true way to attract attention to poetry is to shock people's sense of decency, * * * and that a very good substitute for fame is the notoriety attracted by silliness. * * * What he has to say is not new, and his extravagance is not extravagant enough to amuse the average American audience...