Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...poets can derive more fire from the others' fervor. But why stop here, and thus deprive the rest of the world of this feast of reason? Now that the project is set on foot, let it be expanded till it takes in the editors of all college papers everywhere. Even this will not be enough, we fear. No editor of any kind will be satisfied till he receives an invitation; so let it embrace all those of any race, color, or sex who can drive a quill. Then will the glory of the projectors be consummated. The distance...
...favors of the Record is treated rather gingerly by that paper. In the first place, the editors refuse to permit a letter from an anonymous correspondent; in the second place, they do not like the idea of having a correspondent; in the third place, they say that not even a knowledge of his name would justify them in printing his first letter; but finally soften toward him, and remark that "possibly his second may be of a more satisfactory nature. If so, it will avail nothing without his name...
...tone of Western college journalism is, in most cases, far different from what we could desire. Even in those colleges where the periodicals are most mature, now and then there crops out some illustration of the puerilities with which the students are amused. Not only in their publications are these manifested, but from various editorials and communications found in those papers we are led to judge that such practices as "burning physics" and "cane rushes" are by no means allowed to die out. On the contrary, every year witnesses additions to the number of meaningless ceremonies. From the Chronicle...
...phrase or word used to denote the ridiculing of another for his faults and vices, or of turning the laugh upon him in consequence of some of his unpleasant peculiarities or blunders. That such a method of correction is deprecated by those who are ignorant of college ways, and even by some who are familiar with them, I am aware. However, if the considerations for and against such a course are weighed, a large balance, I think, will be found in favor of it. Those who are opposed to it for the most part regard only present effects, the unpleasantness...
...successful, he must be equipped and ready for every interruption and questioning, innuendo and repartee, and send back the quick and witty response : if he hesitates, he is conquered. The wise man often becomes disconcerted and loses his sagacity in consequence of a keen repartee which may even live longer than the speech itself. That speaker contends at great odds - if, indeed, he is not effectually silenced - whose voice is drowned by uproarious laughter. All undergraduates know that roughing creates the habit of giving a ready reply; in fact, I can think of no method by which it is more...