Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Debating is a case in point. Until intercollegiate debates were begun, the press found nothing of much comment in the forensic efforts of undergraduates, though those in their initial stages were even more significant than they are in the present development of the art of debate. Given, however, the exaggerated interest of intercollegiate competition, and each debate receives almost the attention of a football game...
...lecturer next spoke of Dr. Birkbeck Hill's "Harvard College by an Oxonion." This book, said he, is an admirable account of the college from its earliest days to the present time. The writer has a pleasant, rather old-fashioned, literary quality, which lends itself better to narration and comment than to the making of any lively or complete impressions of our complex academic life at the passing moment. Dr. Birkbeck Hill was evidently deceived in one or two minor traits of college civilization by undergraduates with a taste for the American joke. In the main, this English writer...
...debate on this subject by two men of such ability will be of interest to Harvard men. Ex-Congressman Horr is one of the ablest and most interesting speakers on protection in the country. Mr. Shepard is too will known to need comment...
...Boston Transcript has the following editorial comment on the Hasty Pudding Play, under the title of "Most Excellent Fooling...
...game of last Saturday had been an important one, any comment on Harvard's defeat would have been superfluous. No one could feel it more intensely than the men themselves and there would be nothing to gain by dwelling on what everybody knew only too well. The case seems to be different with the Tufts game. The trouble was not that the team did not contain the best players available; it is necessary to use inferior players at times in order to develop material, as every one knows, though we believe that this should not be done at the risk...