Word: authorship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grave. Although a Shelley, a Coleridge, or a Wordsworth may in his college days have penned despicable lines, we have no right to argue that one who here pens more despicable verse will be a greater than Wordsworth. A veil, never to be raised, hides the agony of authorship, more poignant than the sorrows of Werther, with which some poems, now hidden in the brains of their authors and the basket of the editor, have been forged. And yet it is from such a school that the poets of the future are to come...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Will you kindly insert a disclaimer from me of the authorship of a letter, on the subject of sensational reporting, which appeared in your paper of Monday last, and purported to be written by a graduate who had himself been a Harvard reporter...
...confidently be affirmed that the proportion of non-collegiate men in the lists of authorship is greater to-day than it was in that indefinite period known as 'before the war.' Making a list hastily of well-known authors, setting their names down as they occur to us, it appears that Irving, Poe, Cooper and Whittier are almost the only names of men of the first rank who did not have a college education. Bryant began a college course, but was compelled to discontinue it. Longfellow, Hawthorne, Holmes, Emerson, Thoreau, Willis, Prescott, Bancroft. Motley, the two Danas, were all college...
...referred having been taken, it was found that of the twenty-eight men in the counting rooms, above the rank of errand boy, nine, or almost one-third, are college graduates. The college, it seems, is reinforcing literature in other ways than those which are strictly the ways of authorship...
...very much like deliberate plagiarism. As one looks at the " eating club" illustrations, he is astonished to find that one on page 142, is merely a sifting together of the figures in two of Atwood's famous sketches in the Lampoon, without so much as a hint at the authorship of the design. As this looks suspicious, the reader will look over the book again, and lo ! on page 106, the young lady playing tennis will be seen to have been deliberately copied, line for line, from last year's " Liber Brunensis." One would think that Yale men, after their...