Word: partisanship
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instructor: care should also be taken in selecting a man to teach such a course which admits of great partisanship. He should be able to give a faithful account of all the events that would come up in the course. Nothing injures a student more than a partisan instructor. He should be neither an Anglomaniac, a Francomaniac, a Conservative, a Radical, a Republican or a Democrat...
...more strictly literary periodicals, but they have spared us fortunately, and only college poets were hauled over the coal. It is noticeable that those whose verses are systematically worst are most noisy in carping and cavilling at the envied superiority of their betters and in disclaiming all partisanship in favor of what they mockingly call the French jingles. There is a college in New York which does not hear "the babbling of the brooks and twittering of the birds" in the rondeaux, ballades, triolets, and emphatically expresses its disapproval of such baubles of rhyme as follows...