Word: essays
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Emerson, it is said, keeps a huge note-book by him night and day, in which to record every brilliant thought, and whenever he has filled a dozen pages in this way he selects a title at random, and publishes them as a new essay. Smith was following, in a measure, this plan. Every incident in the barn-yard, every narrow escape from a mowing-machine, was booked for future use. Such is the devotion to art which every literary man feels...
References : Locke, Essay on Human Understanding, Book II. Chapters 10 and 12. Stewart, Philosophy of the Mind, Part I. Section 12. Bowen, Lectures on Metaphysical and Ethical Science. Course II. Lecture 2. Edinburgh Encyclopaedia (and other similar works), art Brute. Many facts and suggestions may be found in Darwin's Descent of Man, Origin of Species, and Animals and Plants under Domestication. Time, Second Tuesday in March...
...There is to be the usual competition for the Prince Consort's Prizes for Modern Languages, some time during this month. The usual prizes will also be given for the English Essay and Latin Prose...
...will be selected with this object in view. Judging from the subjects which the instructor in this course has given out in the past, those who take English 5 will have no reason to complain, as the New York Evening Post recently complained in regard to the Townsend essay subjects at Yale, that the students are not encouraged to write on live topics...
...present number of the Packer Quarterly resembles its predecessors in matter and manner, with one exception; for even in its most sublime childishness, Packer never before equalled in atrocity the title of its opening essay (or review), "Charles Lamb (Lamb Hash...