Word: commentator
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...remember rightly Yale has hinted that our freshmen showed hesitation in accepting the challenge on account of lack of "sand," - but we naturally pass this by without further comment, simply recalling the foot-ball game between the two '90s which met with such happy results...
...ease. "What gymnasium did you come from?" asked the celebrated professor. "From none, sir; from the University of Pennsylvania!" "I do not know much of it," was the reply; "but where you came from they knew how to teach Greek!" And that is beginning to be the world's comment: "We do not hear much of the University of Pennsylvania, but when it does speak, its words tell...
...night, that judgment must have good solid reasons behind it and must not be the outcome of prejudice or hasty and careless discussion. Our correspondent of to-day may be right in the main, but we thin that the position which he takes is narrow and somewhat superficial. Further comment on the subject we shall reserve until a later issue...
...publish an excerpt from a recent criticism of public speaking at Harvard, which is creating wide comment. It certainly is not difficult to account for such a criticism. It is merited and the writer has far from overstated the facts as they exist. It has long been deemed among the students a trivial matter to pursue any regular course of voice instruction and the natural result is that for several years the public speaking has been as a rule execrable. The speaking at commencement would disgrace any other college than that one which so proudly holds such matters light. When...
...criticism of the English department recently published has excited wide comment. Nor can we deny that the comment has not been wholly favorable to the department criticised. The English department is, as all must know, in a far from prosperous condition, if we are to judge prosperity strictly by compactness of work. No one at present contends that an ultimate basis for thorough university work in English literature has as yet been attained at Harvard. Indeed, the provision for honors in English has only been in force during the past two years. But we are not to judge prosperity wholly...