Word: authority
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...author of the volume before us* has sheathed her sword in myrtle boughs, and presented to us the cause of co-education, hidden among as many hair-breadth 'scapes and stirring incidents as you will find in the last sensation novel, and adorned by the usual quotations from "The Princess." We sincerely hope that the heroine (cui nomen Wilhelmina, appropriately shortened to "Will") had no fewer adventures in her after life than in her college course; for she must have contracted a morbid desire for excitement during those four years. She saves a classmate (male, of course) from drowning, rides...
...will accomplish its apparent object of convincing unbelievers in co-education, who, by the by, must not be undeservedly confounded with unbelievers in equal education; but it will certainly furnish pleasant and light reading to anybody who takes it up; and we are happy to state that the author's English is far better than her French...
YOUR last issue contained an answer, by one signing himself "X'81," to the proposal for the formation of a Freshman Glee Club. We presume by the tone of this correspondence that the author has evidently been maltreated by the Lords of Creation (Sophomores). We also wish this gentleman to understand that when the Freshmen wish their hard treatment to be brought before the college (although a most interesting topic), we will take a man from our own class to express our grievances, not one who signs himself ex-eighty...
...catalogue prepared by Mr. Cushing is brought down to 1878, and is both a subject and an author's catalogue. A glance over the list of contributors reveals some interesting facts in regard to the authorship of the Review articles. The Adams family are well represented; John Adams has two articles; Charles Francis Adams, sixteen; Charles Francis Adams, Jr., thirteen; and Henry Adams, eighteen. John Quincy Adams appears to have written nothing for the Review. The one who contributed the greatest number of articles was Edward Everett, who wrote no less than one hundred and sixteen. This number becomes more...
...second grievance, existing only in the mind of the writer, I can only refer him for a remedy to an M. D. The Library fund is certainly not expended in buying "trashy French novels." The only possible source from which your author can have originated such an idea is that a portion of one bequest has been spent in buying some of the best new French novels; the rest of the fund, as I have just learned by inquiring at the Library, having been spent on standard authors. I do not know what peculiar tastes your writer may have...