Word: authorize
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reply to the article on the University of Vermont, which appeared in our last number, we have received a communication, which we should have been pleased to publish, if it had been written in a more legible hand and signed. We can of course print nothing with the author of which we are unacquainted...
...idea of this communication is worth notice, however. While agreeing with the author of last week's article in condemning the violence of President Buckham's letter, the anonymous writer thinks that the dignity of the President of a University demands an answer characterized with something besides "flippancy" and "pertness...
...only four weeks to compose each one, which is certainly by no means too long for those who have acquired no great facility in arranging their ideas. These are all carefully examined by able Professors, who give their opinions upon the merits or demerits of each essay to its author, so that no one is without help in discovering- and correcting his faults. Again, men who can do more work are contributors to the College papers, and, though more rarely, to other magazines or papers; and, while such writers must rely entirely on self-training, they are obliged to improve...
Arrived in Sicily, the author grows worse and worse. Our space will allow us to correct but two misstatements. The first is that "facilities for transportation in Sicily are about three hundred years behind" those of any other civilized country. We personally know that the railway between Syracuse and Messina is fully as good as any in Southern Europe; while the Florio steamers which ply along the Sicilian coast are decidedly the best, as far as accommodation and table go, that we have found upon the Mediterranean. The other misstatement is that Sicilian hotels are so dirty that you cannot...
...poem, with a button-hole attachment. It is entitled " All on a Summer's Day"; but the caption is delusive, for we find no rhythmic suggestion of the boom-jing-jing. It begins with forty lines of descriptive verse, when suddenly the lovers appear on the scene, and the author abruptly turns from Wordsworth to Dante-Gabriel Rossetti. Having fitted up his paradise, he introduces Eve; and we should infer from the following lines that lilacs, and not fig-leaves, were at present the correct thing...