Word: essay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great praise cannot be given for the high tone and the literary excellence of the various articles. If the editors of the Monthly desire to keep for their magazine a literary reputation they have only to follow the precedent so well sustained in the present number. The opening essay written by Mr. F. G. Peabody and entitled "Religion in a University" is very opportune. It is a frank statement of Harvard on the question of voluntary and compulsory attendance at religious services. The essay is forcible, directly to the point, and convincing. It reads like a final statement...
...story of "The Reverend Ambrose Wilson." The plot is less worthy than the treatment, and were it not for an unsuspected turn at the end, would seem shallow. The ins and outs of country churches, however, must have been observed to have been so well portrayed. The essay on Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, though instructive, well written, and displaying in its argument original thought, seems somewhat out of place, in the field which the Advocate has chosen. "Carmen" needs a second reading to be appreciated. The author's conception is delicate; his expression, however, is somewhat obscure...
...plan has been lately inaugurated in the freshman English examination in June. By the recent regulation, men in English A may anticipate one of the three hours required for the examination by preparing a short essay from five to ten pages in length, on the works of one of the authors who have been discussed in the lecture room. The composition must be entitled, "What I find in the writings of-," and it must be presented to the instructors before the 15th of May. By this method one is allowed his own selections from the several authors; but it must...
Number forty-six in the series of pamphlets which G. P. Putnam's Sons are issuing under the title of "Questions of the Day," is "Property in Land: An Essay on the New Crusade," by Henry Winn. The author reviews the most striking arguments in Mr. George's "Progress and Poverty," and states clearly his reasons for believing in the present social system as one of substantial justice...
...essay on the book selected in French 1 will be due April 20th...