Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...folly and evils of reckless overwork have within the past few weeks been brought forcibly to the notice of every student. We need not comment upon the sadness of the cases in question, but the lesson they contain cannot be too strongly emphasized. This is the season when hard work is most fatiguing, and yet most necessary. An ambitious student, trusting to the approaching vacation for rest and recovery, is tempted to strain every nerve, and, before he is hardly conscious of his danger, he may do himself irreparable injury. Even the strongest constitution and the most faithful exercise will...
...change of teachers in the electives Professor Adams formerly had. Such constant change is discouraging, and makes us hope that the rumor of Professor Adams's return may prove to be true. The electives in Oral Discussion and Modern German Literature have already been announced with more or less comment in the College papers. Some disappointment is felt because the former elective is open to Seniors only, and, in fact, we doubt if it would be overcrowded, or its usefulness lessened, if Juniors were allowed to take it, as they are allowed to take its companion course, English...
...following tirade, written in the Cornell Era's best style, seems to deserve a few words of editorial comment...
...print elsewhere a challenge received this week from the Harvard Boat-Club. Comment upon this document seems almost to be uncalled for. The object of a challenge sent at such a time in the year, and couched in such terms, must be obvious to all, and can, without further explanation from the Harvard Boat-Club, be considered as merely a 'sporting dodge' probably sent with an underlying purpose...
...Crimson, not merely without the least acknowledgment of indebtedness, but under his own signature. Not that his article does not bear some marks of originality; he has one or two additional facts, and his language differs considerably from the language in the Crimson. This matter needs no further comment. The Literary World would have saved itself from this mistake if it had placed the Crimson on its exchange-list...