Word: matter
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...These criticisms are all interesting and full of care and precision in composition and in style. But in this respect they suffer from a fault which mars many a Monthly contribution. They are more careful than anything else. They are not surprising, original or absorbing in subject matter, nor yet interesting for any novelty of treatment. They read as if they had been turned out for the English department to begin with, and afterwards much revised with a view to publication. One is inclined to wonder why they were published, unless as models of painstaking composition. If this...
...absent during part of next year. Professor Wendell will give English 8 1 over again, but it will extend through the whole year. Courses 15 2, 8 2, 19 2, 16, 29, 25 2, 26 2, 27 1, 13, 20a and 20c are bracketed or dropped. The subject matter of 17 1 and 24 1 will be changed, and 5 will be broken up into two half courses. Professor Baker will conduct a new course, "E.- pository and Argumentative Composition," as an equivalent to English C and a half course of elective study...
Perhaps what will arouse most interest, is the announcement that English 8 1, originally intended for alternate years, will be offered again next year as a half course running throughout the term. The recent popularity of the course warrants future appreciation, and we believe that the matter it covers will be more thoroughly digested when there are greater intervals between lectures, and consequently more time allowed for literary assimilation...
...Princeton. He took up the question of the desirability of the present tide of immigration from Southern Europe. It is claimed that these immigrants are so extremely undesirable that something should be done to keep them out, even if we do not strike at any other class. As a matter of fact, however, these people are desirable. It is claimed that they drift to the almshouses and slums. From the actual statistics that have been gathered, however, it is seen that the Italians and the Hungarians do not constitute such an alarming proportion of our slum population as has been...
...called to the fact that reserved seats for the Harvard-Princeton debate are now on general sale at Thurston's. The sale so far has not been large and this fact has been a distinct disappointment to those in charge of the arrangements. Hitherto it has been an easy matter to secure large audiences at intercollegiate debates held in Cambridge and it will be unfortunate if this debate is slimly attended. All men who are in any way interested in debating are therefore urged to secure seats at once...