Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...writer to the Nation, in the course of a recent communication, takes occasion to make a vigorous attack on the "Bohns," which have, through long use, become such inseparable companions of the students of the two continents. Says this iconoclastic writer: "Professor Good win's letter in the Nation of January 29, on a misrepresentation of Plato's 'Republic' is of value, not only in showing up the immediate mistake, but in adding weight to the disesteem deserved in general by the translations in Bohn's library. So many persons unable to read the originals read these translations believing them...
...book? And he not only writes a theme on the subject, but afterwards, in a fit of petty spite, bawls out his grief in a newspaper. We express no opinion as to the taste displayed, but we do hope that, after his sophomore year, he will regret this public attack on a deservedly popular instructor, where private redress, for his supposed wrong, might have been so readily obtained...
...foremost institution of learning on the continent, was at last realized. An attempt has been made to induce the Corporation of Harvard University to allow the entrance of young ladies on the same terms with young men; but the conservative body of august men was suffering from an attack of that disease, peculiar to such bodies, known as impecunia. They refused to have anything to do with the new enterprise until its success was established beyond a doubt...
...been said, and very truly, that no man or institution in this world which attains to greatness escapes from attack. So Harvard has found many times and not always to its liking. The most recent attempt to cast odium on the methods pursued at this university was in the form of a long letter to the Boston Transcript. This letter took the authorities severely to task for the manner in which the Divinity School is run and its professorships filled. Fortunately for our good name the writer of this lengthy diatribe seems to be almost alone in his opinions...
SHOOTING AT YALE.-The funny man of the Yale Record, laboring under a bad attack of Dr. Carver, and the midyears combined, produces the following...