Word: autocrat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...writer who calls the Biglow Papers, the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, and Emerson's philosophical essays all belles-lettres; who places Noah Porter, - who could not even express ideas lucidly when appropriated; whose unhappy readers speak of him as of Tupper as a poet or Baird as a philosopher, - a writer who places Porter, as intellectual, opposed antithetically to Emerson and Fiske, as trivial; and who considers Porter's work the culmination of the intellect of Yale, - such a man, we say, has far too low an estimate of Yale's worth for us to contest...
After a leisurely eaten breakfast, of which the monotony may be relieved by some choice literature from the N. Y. Herald, the next feature in a well-regulated day for this autocrat of elegant loafing is a cigar at a certain billiard-room, which is the favorite rendezvous of Harvardites. Here the first serious efforts of the brain and body should be expended on the delicate ivories. As everybody is here, the programme for the day is usually laid out, at the same time that the latest scintillations of wit and humor are exchanged. This is only the beginning...