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...original fashion; and only needed more space and a somewhat subtler analysis to be a psychological study of more than average interest. The critic of Alfred Noyes displays most of the vices of immature criticism: a lack of discernible method, a tendency merely to make phrases out of the well-worn vocabulary of current criticism, and a need to consider more curiously what, if anything, his words mean. Take these sentences: "An auster jealousy best defines the attitude towards his nurse. In proportion as this revelation grows upon him, Mr. Noyes will triumphantly breast the temptations of 'recherche' work...
...creditable and interesting nature. The poetry is unusually good. Perhaps the best of the short poems is "Through the Mist," by Walter Winsor,- a pleasing and vivid description. "A Song of June," by R. T. Fisher is a charming bit of rhyme, although the subject has long been a well-worn one. "Atlantis," a more ambitious effort by J. F. Brice, is certainly creditable, and would be very good but for its occasional vagaries of metre...
During the holidays the Boston Record published a series of interviews with Harvard graduates on the much discussed and well-worn topic, "What is the matter with Harvard in athletics...
...communications in regard to fire-escapes in our yesterday's issue, brings to the fore a well-worn subject, but one which cannot be dropped until remedied. We have repeatedly called the attention of the faculty to the large loss of life which must necessarily ensue in case of a fire in any of the dormitories. There is no possible means of egress except by the stairs, and if escape in that direction should be cut off, one would be compelled to sit down and calculate how many minutes were to elapse before the flames reached the upper story. Perhaps...
Tangible evidence of Harvard's capacity to succeed, if she only takes the trouble, has been afforded. At the opening of the term we mentioned the well-worn saying, "Oh! they don't know how to play foot-ball at Harvard!" and joined our entreaties to those of the college that this trite remark might become as pathetic in its application as that satire, "Yale men say." Our hopes have been fulfilled, and Harvard has taken its place among the first of the contestants in the foot-ball arena...