Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...care of the bodily health is of the first importance. More educated men fail of distinction through the want of bodily vigor than from any other cause. The high prizes in any of the professions are not to be won without exhausting labor. We hear much talk about genius. All this is very well in its way, but the most practical definition of genius is, extraordinary capacity for labor. No world-wide greatness was ever achieved except where there has been a prodigious capacity for work...
...could do we have thus afforded our readers an opportunity to judge for themselves of the general character of productions of this sort and to forecast perhaps what prospects the academic world holds forth to the great public at large for the production of future poetic genius. This prospect it cannot be denied is bad, is all but hopelessly bad. And yet there is one hope. Our selections while fairly representative of the average run of versicles of the sort has not presented any specimens of those exceedingly rare gems-good verses written by college poets. And yet good poetry...
...poetic beauty in epithet ; often rising into effortless and serene eloquence." But in poetry Harvard at this early day furnished the foremost as writers. She since has furnished Lowell and Emerson. Mlchael Wigglesworth, class of 1651 was in contemporaneous renown far above all other verse writers." He had "the genius of a true poet, his imagination had an epic strength, it was piercing, creative." Two other poets, worse rhymers, though greater men than Wigglesworth were John Rogers and Uriah Oakes ; both of the class of 1649. Both later became presidents of the college...
...alone. It is but lately that the papers have been filled with the praises of a novel written by a Dartmouth professor of mathematics. This truly is deplorable. The stage and the novel arrayed as enemies of the college ! That so unheard of a thing as conspicuous talent, as genius should be exhibited by a college professor is enough to shake the very foundations of the learned universe. Prof. Beers, of Yale, also we learn is writing stories for the Century and the Continent; and last of all it is reported that a Columbia professor has received an offer...
...have once before regaled our readers with some choice specimens of Western college journalism. We cannot resist the temptation to again hold up the scintillations of one of these bright children of genius. The following "personals" appear in a late number of the College Transcript, Ohio, Wesleyan University...