Word: like
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Here stood Ill-nature like an ancient maid...
...need at the present time of more monks, more dilettanti, more impotent theorists; the genius of the nineteenth century is not alone the contemplative, but the active life. In Mr. Dwight's article we find a theory of education of which the culminating triumph would be a character like Spinoza, The present interest in athletics may be pushed to an extreme; if so, it is but a healthy reaction and will soon right itself. We must try to check the evil without resigning the good; for, at all events, the "muscular Christian" is preferable to the languid swell. The present...
...Here we look in vain now for those who are to succeed to the places which are occupied by Longfellow, Bryant, Lowell, and Holmes. America either has no young poets coming forward at the present time, or else they are keeping themselves in the dark, to burst upon us like the harlequin in the play, and startle us when we least expect them. A prize offered here for the best poem by an undergraduate, or a graduate of one or two years' standing, might not cause a refulgent light to burst upon us immediately; but, possibly, it might serve...
...prevent the possible results of a controversy which seemed likely to degenerate into something like personal abuse, we have decided not to publish an answer to the article in the last Advocate, entitled "Maudlin Criticism." That article, even in its title, was so offensive that comments upon it have come to us from many sources, while lengthy - not to say heavy - refutations of its sentiments have been meditated by several persons. A feeling of compassion for the readers of the Crimson has also moved us in this matter. It has always been the desire of the editors of the paper...
...have to attend if they fail to pass the original examination, while, as our contributor says, "dawdling over the book, bit by bit, for six or seven weeks, is a trial sufficient to cool the ardor of the most enthusiastic scholar." He proposes therefore that an examination, like the one formerly held for those who wanted to anticipate the study, should be put down for some time in the Sophomore year, and that the whole class should be required to pass this examination as one of the regular requirements for a degree...