Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Looking at matters from an undergraduate point of view we can comment but imperfectly upon the article in the last number of the Nation entitled "The College Grindstone." The article is entirely in line with the recent speech delivered by Owen Wister, in which he deplored the lack of American scholars. Its substance is that American teachers are so over-burdened with academic duties that they cannot give the time and energy necessary to individual research, and that American scholarship is sacrificed to instruction...
...verse does not call for extended comment. E. E. Hunt's "Autumn" gathers pleasingly a bunch of characteristic detail. The author's sense of smell seems to be exceptionally acute. Most of us would find it hard to describe the odor either of a swarm of bees or of a maiden-hair fern. In "The, Golden Calf" Mr. Pulsifer expounds a false idea. Many men are neither the slaves nor the masters of money--professors, for example. F. Biddle's quatrain is expressed with neatness and restraint, and "The Wind" by Mr. C. P. Aiken is the most imaginative thing...
Misinformation alone can account for the press reports from Berlin stating that the fact that Professor Schofield is a British subject has caused some unfavorable comment there. Long before Harvard's representative left, it was known in Germany that he was of Canadian birth, but no objection was offered. It is perhaps not generally understood that the exchange of professors is an academic arrangement which involves no diplomatic complications. As the holder of a Harvard degree and a member of the Faculty, Professor Schofield is a true representative of the University, and as such he will be received...
...intelligent appreciation of music should not be confined to the few who are able to perform, but should be acquired by all who have a normal, though latent, sense of musical beauty. This may be done by listening to performances of master-works accompanied by comment on the form and character of the composition, with such repetition of parts as will give a clear impression of the whole...
...regular departments of the magazine two things call for special comment: Professor Hart's lively rendering of the usually not thrilling University notes, and the 1907 Class Poem, by H. Hagedorn, Jr., here printed under "Varia." The heading "Varia" might, indeed, be well applied to the entire number, for it includes such varied subjects as literature, science, biography, history, philosophy, and even prophecy