Word: expression
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...writer who calls the Biglow Papers, the Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, and Emerson's philosophical essays all belles-lettres; who places Noah Porter, - who could not even express ideas lucidly when appropriated; whose unhappy readers speak of him as of Tupper as a poet or Baird as a philosopher, - a writer who places Porter, as intellectual, opposed antithetically to Emerson and Fiske, as trivial; and who considers Porter's work the culmination of the intellect of Yale, - such a man, we say, has far too low an estimate of Yale's worth for us to contest...
ALTHOUGH Yale has withdrawn from the Rowing Association, she will not disband as a university. The minor exercises and functions will go on as usual. - Buffalo Express...
...with sincere regret that we learn that Professor Gurney has resigned the position of Dean of the College Faculty; and we feel sure that we express the sentiments of all undergraduates when we offer him our thanks for the impartial and efficient manner in which he has fulfilled the duties of his difficult office...
WHEN I got to Mulligan's Junction, Ga., on my trip South, I wanted to go on to Pelican Swamp, and I asked the old Yankee conductor of the Lightning Express when it would leave for that point. "Wal," he replied, chimerically, "if Bill gets the wood sawed and split for the ingine, and - let's see - to-morrow's the 1st of the month, that's washin' day, if Nancy, that 'ere old niggeress don't use up all the water, and if there should happen to be another feller or missis going your way, and if there...
...Ames, '66, agreed with Mr. Roberts, and thought that the meeting should express a decided opinion which should influence, but not bind, the committee to be appointed to take final action. At the close of these remarks the question was put, and the meeting voted that it was in favor of withdrawing. Total number of votes, 80, - Yeas, 52; Noes...