Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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It is a popular notion that the great majority of honor men and of "first scholars" seldom achieve in after-life a success at all proportionate to their academical standing. But of course this is strictly a popular notion, conceived in accordance with popular ideals. It can be answered that...
There has been a noticeable improvement this year in the character of the subjects given out for sophomore and junior themes, to the great gratification of those on whom this duty of writing falls. All who have labored in former years under a certain past regime will appreciate the improved...
The value of a college education, and particularly its practical and money value, notwithstanding its satisfactory attestation by the world for so many centuries, seems still to furnish an interesting and debatable question for a large number of estimable people, and especially for Americans, to consider and discuss. It will...
Mr. Gummere's Section. Theme III. Subjects: 1. Influence of Immigration on our National Character; 2. Would it have been a good thing for England if Harold had conquered William in 1066, and so preserved the Saxon power? 3. A comparison of Shakspere's "Antony and Cleopatra" with Dryden's...
Mr. Wilde is not entirely without humor, as his Boston Music Hall audience knows; and therefore it may not be altogether hoping a hopeless hope to hope that, if he really is in earnest and is serious in his "movement," he may in time be brought to see the absurdity...