Word: particular
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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must be the criticisms admitted into a college paper; they must be neither too bold, for fear of giving offence to the Faculty, nor too mild, for fear of their not finding readers. Usually a criticism upon any study in college, or upon any particular part of it, - either as relating to its usefulness or to the manner in which it is taught, - has to be stated in very general terms; if it is not so put, if anything specific is pointed out, the instructors in that branch are apt to feel that the criticism arises from personal dislike rather...
...often that the advocates of any particular opinion are among the first to acknowledge its defects and its liability to abuse; when they do so, a large measure of liberality and fairness should be granted them: this applies very forcibly to the Faculty of the University, whose advice about a plan of study for next year confesses the weakness in the Elective System, while it strives to remedy it. Their suggestions should certainly be received with some consideration by us, as the opinion of men whose desire it is that we should leave college with minds not narrowed by prejudice...
...antecedents; while the reading public lavishes upon him that superfluous enthusiasm which friends or lovers do not absorb, and it is long odds that he gives his name to a paper collar or to a new form of suspender. It was not so very long ago that that particular school arose which almost did away with our preconceived notions of the simplicity and dignity of poetry, and, by its very grotesqueness, made us stand aghast, - a school which, to use Lowell's comprehensive description, makes the mistake of supposing that imagination is common sense turned inside out, instead of common...
...take the lecture-stand in order to gain an honest livelihood by proclaiming to the world the crimes and cruelties of her husband. Alas! Joaquin Miller has fallen, and the place of the Popular Poet is vacant once more. For the present, we can merely conjecture in what particular way the coming poet will set at defiance God, man, or nature. That he will do so in some way we may safely conclude from the latest productions of those who aspire to hold his future position. In the mean time we must await him with all the patience...
...relieves him from any embarrassment which might result from his not knowing the answers to his own questions, by adopting that system of leading questions and suggestive side-hints, always at the command of teachers for the benefit of their pet classes in general, and of such emergencies in particular...