Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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I think it is Thackeray who, in one of his most charming pictures of real life, says he can't but accept the world as he finds it, including a rope's end, as long as it is in fashion. We know that Thackeray was rather eccentric and we surely...
A New York Harvard graduate, and a friend to Columbia College, thus writes in reference to the proposed change in the curriculum at Columbia: "A few months since, public attention was called to the organization of a school of languages and literature in connection with Columbia College; now the perfected...
It has always been the misfortune of Harvard to be judged superficially. The public has seized upon a certain type of character that exists at the college, and persists in considering that one type and that alone as representative of Harvard character. It is hardly probable that this prejudice can...
Another kind of work of an altogether different character occupies the spare time of many students, viz., literary labor. The least profitable and the least pursued is newspaper work. The college papers are seldom run on a money-making basis. The work which brings the most money into the student...
Theme VI. will be due May 11. Subjects: 1 - Is a president necessary in our national government? 2 - Thackery and Fielding compared as novelists. 3 - A description of the American national character. 4 - The relative advantages of lectures and recitations. 5 - Should our State department be more aggressive in regard...