Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Jealousy at the success of his Homer drew out much adverse comment from minor writers, and to crush them. Pope wrote his Dunciad. His epistles, moral essays and satires occupied his last fourteen years. His Essay on Man, although never regarded as of any philosophical value, shows well in its grace and smoothness of diction, the powers of the poet. His last years were given to didactic satires, in which he is without a rival...
...sixth Symphony Concert, given last night in Sanders Theatre, was exceedingly interesting and enjoyable. The work of Mrs. Nikisch, the soloist of the, evening, is too well known in Cambridge and Boston to call for special comment...
...print, without comment at present on the great question of which this is but a part, the correspondence between the captains of the Yale and Harvard crews. By this it will be seen that Yale proposes that the members of the two crews of this year shall be confined to the undergraduate department, with the same additional specifications that characterize the new rule in its application to intercollegiate foot ball. The action taken in this matter by Harvard is certainly a just and reasonable one which will meet the approval and support of every Harvard man, and one which, without...
...question of an international college boat race at the World's Fair has caused considerable comment from the press of the country, which with hardly an exception favors the admission of Cornell some way or other into the contest. It is stated that the winner of the Oxford Cambridge race would be unwilling to row the winner of the Harvard-Yale race, for by so doing the championship of the world would still remain unsettled, if Cornell chose to dispute the claim and insist upon rowing the English crew herself...
...review of the catalogue for 1892-93 was completed at such a late hour Monday night that it was impossible to make any general comment upon it. Taken as a whole, it shows many changes and improvements in the University over last year. The increase of students is of course notably large, the list of instructors has been enlarged, a greater number of courses have been offered and there are many other indications of the growth of the University. We shall refer later to certain special important changes in the catalogue; at present we can give only a general account...