Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...grammatical puzzles, but for their beauties of idea and of expression. The student was not asked to rack his brains and search the grammar for the peculiar technical reason for an uncommon use of a subjunctive, or to give a long dissertation on the ground of a Grecian author's choice of the infinitive with av instead of the optative. It was supposed that the average student had sufficient general knowledge of grammatical principles, after four or five years of careful preparation, to dispense with comments and questions on the syntax of ordinary sentences; and was able, if not invariably...
...maintained an unaccountable silence with regard to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, whose death has recently been chronicled. Despite the prevailing custom among journalists of giving a brief sketch of the lives of great men, upon their demise, this honor has been denied Bulwer to a remarkable extent. An author deserving to rank among the foremost of our day has been removed from a life of activity and usefulness, in his sixty-seventh year, - an event which has elicited hardly an expression of regret from our leading journals. From a Boston paper we learn that Sir Edward...
...violation of any law laid down in the Constitution, is it an element of Insurrection or of Invasion, for a man to place in the ballot-box a vote for whatever candidate he may choose?" Also, "If the militia is called into active service by the President, without the authority of Congress, is this anything but the assumption of Imperial power?" Unfortunately the name of the author is withheld, so that we cannot communicate our solutions to her; otherwise we should make haste to discuss the whole matter in a correspondence...
...almost with regret that we take up a burlesque of that delight of our school-days, Sandford and Merton; but, since the author of the new history has already given us proof of his humor in Happy Thoughts and other books, we look for amusement, if not instruction, and are not disappointed. The book opens very funnily with a description of the "hilarious" son of the farmer, and of the young Jamaica nabob. Of course the omniscient Mr. Barlow falls an easy prey to the author's talent for ridicule, and becomes in farce what Mr. Pecksniff is in comedy...
...solicitation for contributions from all our fellow-students, and particularly request those who send articles through the mail to attach their signatures, not for publication, but as a pledge of good faith. Any article not deemed suitable for our paper can, in that case, be immediately returned to its author...