Word: workmanship
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With the last issue of the Advocate, the senior board yield the management of the paper to the hands of worthy successors. That our contemporary has been steadily improving in its quality of literary workmanship throughout the past two years is a fact which has been a matter of open comment from many quarters. May the old lady continue to gain more and more admiration as she grows older. It is certain that her sons from eighty eight will reflect as much credit on the family name as their brothers from preceeding classes have done in the past. But there...
...Holmes are at once the most striking and the most interesting. A new quarter-mile track, one of the best, if not the best, of the quarter-miles in the country,- and a new nicely-turfed diamond, with a catcher's fence that is a model of fine workmanship, are the most important reforms. In addition, however, the field has been well levelled and graded; and by the enterprise of the Tennis Association several new and exceedingly fine courts have been constructed. Thus, Holmes Field has come to be the principal arena of the athletic contests of the college...
...book itself. Such blind and undiscriminating praise as was lavished upon it, can be but harmful to any but the strongest work. Mr. Wendell's romance has been called the "most powerful and original that has been produced in America since Hawthorne;" "as a piece of literary workmanship, almost perfect." The reviewers have suffered only from dearth of words in which to express this enthusiasin, and the slight blame which they throw in seems to be rather a propitiatory offering to justice than an honest belief in the existence of faults. The fact is that the book has many faults...
...terse and vigorous English, and Mr. Wendell's style strikes us as both forcible and graceful. The many descriptions, in particular, are remarkably well done. However, one may regard the weirdness of the story, and the fancifulness of the plot, everyone will agree that as a piece of literary workmanship the book is almost perfect. There are some vague and rather meaningless sentences scattered through it, but all in all, the manner in which the story is written is beyond criticism...
...club, at New York, on the 28th of October, has arrived and will be on exhibition at Bartlett's during the next few days. The cup was presented to the U. S. National Lacrosse Association for annual competition at New York city. It is very artistic in design and workmanship...