Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...guilty of such bombastic grandiloquence as obounds in this letter. He may yet learn, when he studies Rhetoric, the best writer is he who tells "a cold, dry fact" in an interesting way. If after leaving college he should try newspaper work, be might, if he had acquired some common-sense by that time, learn that no large newspaper hires "raving maniacs," or prints stories written up "with little or no foundation in fact." After years of experience in Harvard reporting, I can truthfully say thay I ever knew a story about anything that happened at Harvard to be "written...
...always been a foregone conclusion that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton would hold the three first places; and so they have used the other teams merely as a means for practice. Fourth place in the league has practically been first place for Amherst, Dartmouth and Brown. Further, it is a common - whether just or not - complaint, that, in case of a close game between a large and small college, the umpire, holding his position by virtue of the support of the large college, always gives all close decisions to the large college. Dartmouth lost two games last year in which...
...offenders, who have on several occasions purloined books from the library, have not had their offence made known to the public. An absolute entailment of all library privileges for a long time would not be too heavy a punishment for their utter disregard, both of library rules and common courtesy...
...Value of Debating Societies" deserves attention. This article and the communication regarding the new reading-room, go very well together; for the purposes of a society for debate and of a reading-room, are very closely related to each other, and in many particulars the two organizations find common causes for existence. Both the debating society and the reading-room are organizations designed to fill out the several deficiencies of the regular college course; and every student should realize that the full benefits of a college course cannot be gained without his patronizing these organizations to a greater or less...
...every day life. While the facts justify an absolute denial of the above statement, yet it is true that many matters of practical importance are too often overlooked. It is only reasonable to expect, that the modern college graduate shall have a comparatively thorough knowledge of questions of common interest, and the rules by which public assemblies should be governed. If unexpectedly called upon, how many students now in college could express an opinion, satisfactory to themselves even, on questions of public interest, or feel qualified to decide on any, but the most common questions of parliamentary usage? The necessity...