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AMERICAN COLLEGE FRATERNITIES. By William Raimond Baird. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott...
...Baird, C. Francis...
...great work with an original poem, but in its place we find the volume accompanied by a whole galaxy of literary satellites, all more or less quaintly humorous. There is a pathetic little novelette, by J. Wharton, on "National Self-Protection"; several brief and brilliant essays by Henry Carey Baird, such, indeed, as make the reader long for more, or at least return to his Noali Porter with a relish; and then two tender, almost poetical; morceaux in that rich vein of thought which his Honor Judge Kelley knows so well how to work...
...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...
Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1872. Edited by SPENCER F. BAIRD, with the Assistance of Eminent Men of Science. New York: Harper and Brothers...