Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tuftonian published recently an editorial urging the formation of a New England Inter-Collegiate Press Association, and asked for communications upon the subject from certain New England college publications. The matter has as yet been mentioned by few of our exchanges and it seems to us that the seed sown by the Tuftonian has fallen upon very barren ground. In other words, it seems as if there is but little necessity for such an organization between those college journals which aspire to some degree of literary excellence. It must be known to our contemporary that a Press Association is already...
...friend of humanity" in the seventy page pamphlet before us. The anonymous author seems to be much of a pessimist, a man, or woman, struggling either to incite the citizens of the United States to dissatisfaction, or one interested for the good of the Country, but blinded to certain facts in it. In the preface he says that the "object of this pamphlet is to turn the thought of the earnest working men of our country to the social problem of the times." He then proceeds to turn them to it very forcibly and to show that the moneyed...
Books were placed horizontally on the shelves, not perpendicularly as with us. There is no certain evidence of the existence of catalogues. The direct descendants from these ancient libraries can be traced from the time of the Empire to the thirteenth century...
...obliged to give most of his strength to Composition, he has found time to conduct one or two courses in Literature. In these he professes not to treat exhaustively English Literature since Shakspere, but merely to guide students in an intelligent study of the lives and the writings of certain masters of the last two centuries. Everybody admits that more courses in English Literature are desirable; it is no secret that they are contemplated: but the recent growth of the Department has naturally followed the most urgent demand - that for courses in English Composition...
...students of "the art of dramatic expression." One interested speaks of the opportunity, and a voice from the darkness replies to him with biting scorn. How does the matter now stand? No one knows, nor is it the evident desire of any one to know. One thing however is certain. If the ill-fated club is to be recalled to life it must be upon an essentially new basis. But will such a society bear such a new construction? We question it. Its former ideal was too realistic, too highly seasoned for other than a short and inglorious existence...