Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...medium between all members of the University, facilitating their work by its announcements, giving expression to their personal opinions by its communications, stimulating interest in their activities by its reports, and reflecting their calm and abiding opinions by its editorials. We are here not only to afford a running comment on university events, but we are ready and eager to give aid to all movements which promise increase for Harvard's welfare. We purpose to be, not so much the critic, as the servant of the University...
...interesting to notice the trend of college opinion in regard to the new athletic regulations which have recently gone into operation at Harvard. Among the large list of exchanges which come to us daily we have not found a single instance of unfavorable comment. This in itself is no little cause for satisfaction, but the many words of praise which also appear are even more gratifying. The rules reem to find general acceptance and commendation, and have been recommended by prominent sporting authorities as eminently fair and sports manlike. We see them reflected in the rules adopted by Yale; with...
...rest of the Monthly suffers somewhat from being too entirely devoted to literary subjects. Four of the five articles treat of the writings of different authors in their various phases. "A New England Mystic," by Carleton E. Noyes, gives some comment on the character of Jones Very, but largely as it showed itself through his poetry. "The Elizabethan and the Greek,- a Study in Lyric Poetry," by E. K. Rand, is, as its name implies, a comparison of the lyrics of the Greeks with those of the poets of England at the time of that nation's greatest prosperity. Following...
...stuff, and that it was only tolerated because it was Shakespeare. With this view no one can agree who reads his plays without prejudice. In them we find no trace of preaching or moralizing, but every character is allowed to speak for itself, without preference given or comment made. It is the work of a great artist, to whom life in all its manifold phases strongly appealed, and who was thus able to reproduce it with all the delightful charm of reality...
...lecture will include comment on the characters of Sir John Falstaff and "Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur"; criticism of Henry VIII in the representations of Mr. Irving and other players; and reading of the Crispin speech, the scene between Falstaff and the Chief Justice, and Mistress Quickly's description of the death of Falstaff...