Word: particulars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...review of the different studies. But in doing so we ask that criticisms shall be just, and that the opportunity shall not be taken to find fault with instructors and electives generally, simply because they are such, or because a student finds pleasure in directing his remarks against a particular professor or course of study...
Once in the Rhetoric class one is qualified to read with profit the best French authors; but nothing is read except what has particular reference to rhetoric or style; as, for example, the Pensees de Pascal, the Oraisons Funebres of Bossuet, the works of Fenelon upon Eloquence, La Bruyere, the Fables de la Fontaine, the classical productions of Racine, Corneille, and Moliere, etc. At the same time they study, in Latin, Cicero's treatises on Rhetoric, Tacitus, Virgil, Horace, and extracts from Lucretius; in Greek, Thucydides, the orations of Demosthenes, Sophocles, and parts of Aristophanes. Besides, students are required...
...Werner," in particular, is labored, its versification most prosaic, and in several places a literal paraphrase of the novel which supplied him with his idea. The "Deformed Transformed" is less so. Caesar is a very human devil, partaking more of a cynical adventurer than of a minion of the Prince of Darkness. His master is also an adventurer, but of less intellectual pretensions...
...this because of an article which appears on "Harvard Clubs," purporting to be a true exposition of the status of the clubs and societies of Harvard. The article, besides being calculated to create a false impression by its general tenor, is notably inaccurate in most of its particular assertions...
...regret that my remarks about the present Senior Class should have been apparently misinterpreted. I thought of it merely as a small part of the educated young men of the country, and hoped, by mentioning it in particular, to strike nearer home...