Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have before us three school papers: the Horae Scholasticae, from St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., the Vindex, St. Mark's, Southborough; and the Critic, Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven. The first of these is well-managed and well-written, which is more than can be said for a great many of our college exchanges. The Vindex would do better if it confined itself to matters of interest to the school, instead of discussing the "Mode of Electing a Pope" and kindred subjects; and if it did not try to be very funny. As a rival of the Burlington...
...article is to demolish the `independent man,'" says the critic, "and, we infer, to disprove the existence at college to any great degree of that fungoid growth, toadyism." Nothing was further from our purpose than to disprove the existence of that "fungoid growth"; on the contrary, we regret that there is so much of it here; but we ventured to suggest that the epithet is often applied too indiscriminately. The misinterpretation of our meaning is so obvious that we do not see how it could be made accidentally...
...musical culture offered in Music 5. The course is a series of lectures by Professor Paine, on the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their successors, - their development of the Sonata and Symphony. It is not everywhere nor every day that one can listen to the analysis and criticism and afterwards to the interpretation of a minuet of Mozart or a scherzo of Beethoven by one who himself ranks high as a critic and a composer. Mr. Paine is willing that all those not regularly members of the elective, but wishing to hear him play the various movements analyzed...
Coming fresh from the untutored wilds of the West, South, or that geographically uncertain and ever-receding location which goes under the non-committal name of "Down East," a slight touch of indigenous brogue in a Freshman is excusable - for three months or so. A generous critic might allow him a year to wear off such gaucherie. But how can the new-comer fail at once to notice the wide discrepancy between his pronunciation and that of educated people, if, of course, he be of ordinary intelligence? His only safe course is to turn to his Worcester and abide...
...which we fear to attempt to describe lest we be accused of too open adulation. Mr. Morse's two songs, "Embarrassment," by Abt, and, in response to an encore, J. K. Paine's "Matin Song," were sung with clearness, sweetness, and at times true pathos, though a captious critic would have desired to see a little more life and energy...