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There is no writer of English, alive or dead, whose works would stand the tests applied by professors to the compositions of pupils; and yet it is the usage of good writers and not the dictum of the professor that determines what is and what is not good English. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser...
...schools of law than into schools of any other profession, and it is very probably true that a good majority of the men in other professions have avoided being lawyers only by some change in circumstances. The profession of law is said to be over-crowded, and the famous dictum "There's room higher up," cannot justify more than a hundred men in a year striving for distinction as lawyers. We do not anticipate that Judge Holmes will urge every man in college to study law. We rather believe that he will give some timely cautions...
...essay goes on to say, that the boy who lays aside his reasoning powers, and takes without question the dictum of his teacher, is the one who learns to read and spell more readily. There is a great strain upon the powers of memorizing at the expense of everything else. Several letters stand for one sound and vice versa. There are many silent letters and syllables, and altogether the English language is the worst constructed of any now in existence, except, perhaps, that of the heathen Chinee. An Italian school-boy learns to read Italian in a little over nine...
...boats, or places upon our nines are to be found among the most regular attendants at the required exercises of the college, while it is a notorious fact that the most systematic loafers in college are to be found among the non-athletic men. Can we, then, accept this dictum of President Robinson's as holding true of American students in general? Obviously not; nor can we be made to believe that the students of Brown, in particular, are so constituted as to be incapable of at the same time engaging in sport and study, with profit to themselves...
...character and standing make their approval of value, will certainly extend to these regulations the full measure of their unconditional endorsement." If it be not considered a piece of undergraduate impertinence by the young lion of the Spirit who penned the above, we would like to suggest that his dictum here stated is unmitigated dogmatism. The familiar rhetorical and journalistic trick of assuming the concurrence of all good and wise men in one's own view of the question, thereby implying the utter folly of your opponent's, is unworthy a journal of the character of the Spirit...