Word: authority
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...must all confess, however, that the author of "Hammersmith" has shown us a living Harvard, if not exactly the Harvard which each one of us knows. Times have changed since he was here; distance has added a romantic coloring to his recollections; but the portrait which he has drawn is a likeness, even if it is an ideal...
...addition to the faults of his model, the author of "Hammersmith" has a few of his own. To begin with, his book is much too long; it would take Macaulay to read it through without skipping. Secondly, Hammersmith is unnaturally successful; the author has seen the necessity of giving him a few defects, but even these are such as would be likely to endear him to the reader. He is represented as being lazy about his studies, but the author has nevertheless elected him into the Phi Beta; in short, he is a favored child of nature, or rather...
...first is a communication that betrays plainly the writer's class. It is a kindly attempt on the author's part to offer a few hints to the Faculty for which they will doubtless be grateful...
...unintelligible to any whose ears have been attuned to the jingle of the Mother-Goose School." At the risk of being included among the disciples of "the Mother-Goose School," we confess to having been utterly puzzled by the metre of the poem in question. It is, as the author tells us, "suggested by Mrs. Browning's 'A Portrait,'" which is written in stanzas of three verses each, each line consisting of our trochees. As the stanzas in "A Counterfeit Presentment" are arranged in the same manner, and as those verses which we succeeded in scanning are also trochaic dimeters...
...also notice that the author uses inflexissimus in the sense of inflexible, whereas it means just the opposite...