Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - The insulting attack made upon me by a person signing himself "W. S - e, '87" (an abbreviation by the way corresponding with the name of no member of '87 in the catalogue) in your issue of Thursday is unworthy of notice, except for the utterly foundless charge that it contains of an "attempt" on my part to detract from the value and extent of the work now being accomplished by the present instructor in elocution." No one appreciates more highly than I the efforts of Mr. Hayes to give a thorough training in the art of expression...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Gentlemen: "John Donne's" attack on Professor Hill makes it worth while to inform new-comers of one or two facts. Fifteen years ago there was no English Department here Professor Child offered several elective courses, I believe, but burdened as he was with themes, could not give the college the full benefit of his scholarship; beside Professor Child there were one or two transient instructors in Rhetoric - transient because at that time the attitude of students toward the study of their own language left little hope in life for the man who undertook to teach them...
...assistants has been extraordinary. Our correspondent ought not to expect that one man can create a department, above all when that one man has, as Professor Briggs intimates, encountered bitter opposition to his work of creation from those who would be naturally expected to second his efforts. To attack Professor Hill therefore is doubly unjust; it is unjust because it is entirely unjustifiable; it is unjust because it imputes to a conscientious man (whose devotion to his work has more than once endangered his health), those errors and shortcomings for which others are in a large measure to be censured...
...attack is made upon the founder of the Club, whose earnest efforts met only with careless indifference from the members. In a weak attempt to imitate the bad English of Artemas Ward, the writer declares that "owing to the indifference of the instructor in elocution, the interest in the club was allowed to die out owing to the rarity of the meetings," - thus kindly offering to the reader a choice between the two alleged causes of death. Mention is made of the "good work and conscientious endeavor" of the club in the past, and "its old position of usefulness...
...advances and more and more use is made of the gymnasium, a venerable topic of discussion puts in an appearance again. Complaints about the bathing facilities at the gymnasium are heard on every hand, it is only with the hope of explaining the reasons for these laments that we attack the subject. It is a matter of interest to all. Everybody has had some experience with the coy willfulness of those faucets and pipes. Everybody knows what a delight it is to linger shivering and half-frozen, waiting for a drop or two of warm water, and finally in despair...