Word: critical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...SECRET SOCIETY SYSTEM. By E. E. Aiken, Yale, '81. New Haven: O. H. Briggs." The series of essays by E. E. Aiken, which appeared last spring in that singularly able but anomalous paper, the Yale Critic, have been collected and published in pamphlet form and entitled "The Secret Society System." The publishers...
...Critic, in speaking in a recent issue of freedom of thought, says: "At the present time, the younger professors in all our great colleges are, with few exceptions, evolutionists; but how many of them are there who dare profess themselves such? At Harvard, we believe, no restrictions exist, and a man does not endanger his position by declaring his acceptance of the Darwinian theory. At Cornell, too, there are several avowed evolutionists who are in no real danger of being discharged. But when we except these two, we know of no institutions where a similar freedom of opinion would...
...French critic (name not given) is quoted as declaring that Mrs. Langtry is a charming woman, absolutely devoid of dramatic talent...
...another critic remarks, the book is a man's book and therefore will be read by every woman and child who can get hold...
...above notice, taken from The Critic, gives in its unique way an idea of one of the most successful books of this year. It contains 268 pages and 200 illustrations, is handsomely printed and elegantly bound, and sells for only one dollar a copy...