Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fine exhibition in the eyes of the ladies, but which did not at all satisfy the expectations of the amateurs." Again, in the same paper we find a complaint that the second nine has in "three well-contested matches" defeated the Harvard nine. "We offer no comment," says the Advocate, "none is needed...
...this moment, when President Eliot of Harvard University has gone to Europe for a well-deserved vacation, it would perhaps be not out of place to comment on the tremendous progress which Harvard has made under his administration. The corps of instructors, containing some of the most eminent names in American scholarship and letters has been doubled; the size of the classes has increased from about one hundred to very nearly three; and the great elective system, broadening, expanding and enlightening the minds and purposes has been brought to a state of perfection which Yale and Princeton must follow...
...Comment on the fact that a turkey is a native of America, and was so named because its wattle was of the color so long known as Turkey red. What does this show as to the age of turkeys? What is the age of this turkey...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - Mr. Barrett Wendell, in his recent account of social life at Harvard, offers what seems to me a wise and timely suggestion, namely, to found a university society, whose aim shall be to bring together more intimately, professor and student. I observed a comment on this same suggestion in one of the Boston papers of to-day, which seems to touch the matter closely. Now that we are a full-fledged university with that larger and broader freedom which attends such station, it is wise to merit this big title by a character equally...
...Barrett Wendell's article in the last Lippincott's Magazine upon social life at Harvard attracts much favorable comment from the college press. The writer's own stand-point and his college social status can plainly be seen but he nevertheless writes with fairness and impartiality As Mr. Wendell is connected with the Harvard Faculty it would seem that competition for prizes offered by the Lippincott Publishing House is not limited to undergraduates. We hope that a large number of articles will be submitted from Cornell. - Cornell Daily...