Word: lit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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MUTUAL admiration is all very well, and there is no possible objection to the Courant's complimenting the Yale Lit., only it is carrying the matter a step too far, to quote a stanza of a translation from Alfred de Musset, and criticise it (favorably) as original. Though translations are easy enough to write, we had noticed this in the Lit. as particularly good, and do not doubt that those who read it in the Courant, without knowing it to be merely a reproduction, will think it more remarkable than we did. The Courant speaks of another poem...
...Republican" at the Junior exhibition. A writer in the last Record exposes the fact that the oration was judiciously selected from one delivered in 1869 on "John Milton, Jeremy Taylor, and John Locke as Advocates of Liberty," which was found in a back number of the Yale Lit...
...Nassau Lit. for March shows, and acknowledges that it shows, "an irritated sensibility" in regard to the troubles at Princeton. It is especially severe on Cornell in general, and on the Era in particular, and calls attention to the disturbances at Cornell some time ago. The Princetonian also uses the "tu quoque" argument as a weapon of defence, by complaining of the daily papers' silence in regard to the Yale men's reception of Count Johannes. The Princetonian is entirely occupied with the pistol-fight, and contains accounts of the affray, editorial comments, words for the Freshmen, words...
...immediately seized with a fever, on her recovery from which she and the Puppy are happily united in the bonds of holy matrimony. Not having the pen of Gail Hamilton, we will make no criticism. We simply extend out cordial and sorrowful sympathy to the editors of the Lit...
...have devoted so much space to the Lit. that there is little room for saying anything else; fortunately, we have little else to say! However, as we are not so lucky as to have a Crimson correspondent from Wellesley, we cannot pass over the letter from that sister college of ours to the Dartmouth. To think that we should have to get our news in such a roundabout way ! The dear things have got back from their scarlet-fever vacation, and are enjoying the skating and coasting. They too are suffering from examinations; with this difference, that in order...